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© 2018 AFPMerkel denounces new anti-Semitism from Arab refugees
By MICHELE TANTUSSI JERUSALEM©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Jimizo
Tragic to read about this is happening in a civilised 21st century democracy, and particularly in one which has fought hard to rid itself of this appalling discrimination after such a dark history of it.
She played fast and loose with the security of Germany. She says she’s dismayed by this but she shouldn’t be shocked.
theFritzX
A very unwise woman.
Cochise
nandakandamanda,
for the answer to your question see Jimizo, below. Thats it in a nutshell.
theFritzX
Of course she shouldnt be shocked. And there are more 'unforseen' consequences to come. I feel sorry for germany and, as Merkel is hellbent on inflicting her silly policy EU wide, other EU states.
nandakandamanda
theFritzX, unwise in general, or unwise as per the article, and if the latter, why?
Goodlucktoyou
shoot Palestinian unarmed protesters to kill or maim OK, say it is wrong to do so is not OK.
Confusius
That's correct.
That is not exactly correct though. It should actually say "no jewish school,...". Yes, that's bad enough as is, but leaving out such information just gives people that scream "fake news" more ammunition. More important is probably that right before that she said that unfortunately there have been problems with antisemitism already before all the refugees arrived. So it is in fact about the new kind of antisemitism that was added to the existing one. Also there have been police forces in front of synagogues for years already. So while the report with the increase of problems is correct (and it is important to report on that), intentionally leaving out information to paint a different picture is quite questionable in my opinion.
If you are trying to damage the credibility of the press, you are doing a good job here.
Confusius
Thanks for the downvote for just providing information the author decided to withhold.
For everyone interested, here is some more information and why I criticized the article and the poor work of the journalist.
There are about 33.547 schools in Germany (number from 2016), but only 16 jewish schools (so the difference is quite huge).
Merkel on antisemitism in Germany 2014:
Merkel 2018:
The bolded parts are what the author decided to omit. Overall she said 1:1 what she has said before in 2014 (that all jewish institutions are guarded by the police around the clock). She just added that this has already been a problem before the big waves of refugees arrived (what people call the European migrant crisis started in 2015). I could have chosen an article that is closer to the quote from 2018 but I'll not use the Bild (the German equivalent of The Sun) as a source.
Also in another article from 2003:
It just says that there are heavily armed police officers in front of the main synagogue of Munich day and night.
From 2012:
The different jewish institutions in Berlin are guarded by the police.
And you can find many more of those articles that date back to the years before 2015.
FizzBit
Another country, Israel, that's treated in the press with legitimacy.
And then there's this:
Merkel and her "two state solution" is just perpetuating the crimes of Israel. Why?