There is increased anti-semitic activity in the words of their. report in terms of propaganda verbal and physical abuse so what exactly is going on there are we seeing a minority on the margins of society that feels increasingly empowered to act out. there is that. this is you know anderson it isn t the marty factorial thing i mean it s stupid to say that but it s true their. use of if you like traditional real anti semites who somehow may feel emboldened by the internet from social media then the new and to some might say call themselves anti globalists who. situated within these so-called alternative for germany this new party to never say they re against jews but it s always the east coast the capitalists and then it s goldman sachs or whatever and somehow it all boils down to the old enemy and then there is something
Party will send more the ninety delegates to the bundestag the german parliament. after the results were released immediately posted an article on the n.g.o.s social media platforms denouncing the politics of hate what does he think about the election results. if in this media this i find it disgusting to be forced to watch child politicians or openly hostile to jews from or a whole families and a phobic and racist have been voted in the parliament in such large numbers of its parliament to be avoidance and. human rights watch wants to make sure that the topic of anti semitism is taken more seriously by the next german government. patrick ziegler is director of the and frank center in berlin he is also one of the authors of a report on anti semitism submitted by a commission of experts to the german parliament in march twenty seventeen i think
Always aware of this my daughter as we have seen says iraq a high being jewish she s studying in england and england especially at the universities there is a very lively and to some it isn t at the moment and my son studies in the us and there s not such a big problem with that system it is so they see it from their own point of view but it has changed my son my wife and me and my parents ferry much we see this country now with different us your cat parents of course being holocaust survivors yes alan posner let s talk about the link which you mentioned between criticism of israel and anti-semitism where and when does the one begin to shade into the other and would you say given germany s crimes that german simply should refrain from criticizing israel altogether oh of course not. israel is
Gay students and girls were also. badly abused and the school did nothing but in his case because it was jews who were extreme it was even worse because they didn t beat up other kids now your opening statement indicates that you definitely don t see this as an isolated phenomenon and yet the government s anti-semitism report. more or less quoting here comes to the conclusion that in comparison with any other time before world war two or thereafter open anti-semitism has rarely been less tolerated by the broad majority of society than today so how do you reconcile that statement with what your child experienced well firstly we germans have learned how to oncet questions about and to semitism no germ. i would say i m an semitic or i hate jews so people find they learned in rituals in remembrance day and all this how
Stigmatization of my own minorities this is a big problem inside germany i want to talk about what effects that changing climate has and we have a short film about that in recent years berlin has actually seen something of a rebirth of jewish life but could this increasingly be perceived as a less than welcoming place we can listen now to the voices of benson the shas these children interviewed for a film called because you re a jew they were showing you. i always felt it was better not to say i m jewish. really yeah i don t see it that way yeah oh yeah i hardly told anyone not at university either. and i don t keep quiet about it because to me that would feel like it s something i should be ashamed about it was even if that s not how it is for usually i think they were secretly an assist you know i m jewish. people don t my kitchen discuss