The
German news magazine Der Spiegel published a well-researched and
carefully written article, that looked into the activities of the Jewish and
pro-Israel lobby in Germany’s parliament. Surprise, surprise, a chorus of Jewish
and non-Jewish German philosemitic voices were immediately active crying Anti-Semitism.
These
accusations are absurd, as is the whole discourse on matters Jewish in Germany.
Spiegel article:
ReplyDeleteThey did indeed research as well they could, putting no less than 6 journalists to the task. Unfortunately for "Der Spiegel" all they came up with were two jewish lobby groups that try - with rather modest means (i.e. trips to Israel and to the West Bank) - to counter the many antisemitic boycott-divest-sanction organisations. Now lobby groups are a hall mark of every parliamentary democracy. They exist for trees, cars, dogs, immigrants, Saudi Arabians, Palestinians, and very likely also for gold fish. I believe some 800 of these groups are listed quite officially. But when two of these turn out to be Jewish it is sold as big news. Since protocols of their unspectacular doings are easily found on their respective websites, "Der Spiegel" resorts to inarticulate musings: The Mossad (of course), the Israeli government, infiltration, ..., none of it even remotely proven. In a nutshell, they proclaim "Die Jüdische Weltverschwörung", a classic anti-jewish stereotype.
That is why the article in der Spiegel must be referred to as antisemitic.
Now German parliament does not really need lectures about boycotting, divesting and sanctioning Jews. Being historically educated they remember this from 80 years ago, when the call was: "Kauft nicht bei Juden!" (Don`t buy from Jews)
Added to this was usually: "Die sollen sich nicht in die Hose machen!"
The vast majority of German MPs decided therefore, quite out of their own accord, to call a spade a spade:
Most BDS activists are motivated simply by a hatred of Jews.
Theit essence is antisemitism.