A point but then they turned around and supported arab terrorism against israel they wrote you know the the red army faction actually trained in palestinian terror camps and so on and since then it s sort of a given if you re on the left that you re critical of israel there s you know there s no accept the fact that israel is the only democracy that gays lesbians and so on queers. transgender people you know it s and so this all comes together these three aspects christine however would you agree are we seeing a rise in intolerance generally and particular in this i think what has really changed is that the clients in germany of public discussion of private discussions a lot of things are being set that would have been impossible ten years ago fifteen years ago and this doesn t go only for anti jewish descent ones but it goes for anything that is considered different that is considered any end to german somehow
. we have this growing fear sentiment of everything should stay as it is germans are one nation and they look like nationally against muslims right now this is like if you read sometimes texts of nowadays if you replaced were muslim with jewish it gets really frightening to me you know we have this kind of stigmatization that always is the beginning of further development to more violent reactions towards minorities the stigmatisation of my own minorities this is a big problem inside germany i want to talk about what effects that change in 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 in some michelle children interviewed for a film called because you re a jew they were showing you. i know i always felt it was better not to say i m
That you definitely don t see this as an isolated phenomenon and yet the government s anti-semitism report and i m 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. how to oncet questions about and to semitism no joke. i would say i m an semitic or i hate jews so people find their learned in rituals remember and stays in all this how to how to answer these questions so they don t appear and to semitic they are i mean the fact that the. message went off the school the mosque didn t do anything to protect my son even off the we asked him again and again shows. a
Human being needs to understand that this kind you know this crime is something that must not happen again which leads us again to israel if you re talking about israel has no right to exist you re talking about denying six million people the right to exist which is precisely what the holocaust was about the need to make this connection that s a second problem because people talk about the holocaust yeah well it must never happen again it was not going to happen again like that it s going to happen with an iranian missile on tell of the that s going to happen with we you know with with with jews being with the synagogues being burned by arabs here in germany is going to happen in a different way and we need to make that connection that we have to disconnect a little bit from this criticizing israel i know you think it s possible and it is necessary to come out of disconnect a positive. it s where the jews went because the germans threw them out they didn t kill them so this is. part of
To act out. big is that this is you know and this image is a multi-factorial thing i mean 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 are situated within these so-called alternative for germany this new party they 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 which is on the left and in muslim muslim community which is and to zionism and ever since nine hundred sixty seven you know the sixty eight as my generation they were so proud they said well we confronted our parents about what they did in the nazi past that is true up to