Touch it. Using all channels available to inspire people to take action. And where to turn it into doing something here for the next generation the idea is for the environment series of global Three Thousand on t w and online to get look. More. About vox and then im here today with felix klein germanys federal Anti Semitism commissioner to talk about rising Anti Semitism in germany mr klein you were recently appointed to this newly created post and unlike what many would have expected youre not jewish whats your relationship to judaism. Yes i had jewish friends in School People i got along with very well and who have remained my friends to this day. When i was eighteen i visited israel for the first time and i
really enjoyed it. Afterwards i became a diplomat and often dealt with judaism and israel even though i was never actually stationed there. In twenty fourteen i was asked to be the special representative of the German Foreign office for relations with jewish organizations and Ant
Was rising Anti Semitism at the center of society what other examples show things are indeed shifting. There are these century old images and documents that are constantly being dug up jews and money jewish influence these widespread terrible anti semitic images keep reappearing. And then theres how people deal with our nazi past i think confronting it has made our country strong because it made us critical. But when people lined right wing populist Alexander Galland Trivialize the issue by saying things like the twelve years of nazi rule were just a speck of bird poop in german history and worries me this is the kind of environment in which anti semitic sentiments thrive. Does that also show that antisemitic lines have become quote unquote more normal
network informant tact passed in germany last year is actually applied. So when anti semitic and racist content is posted it is truly deleted and the Internet Providers are held accountable to do so. On the other side we need to raise aw
way. and what we get out of north carolina? a 7 to 7 split in the congressional delegation. that s something that they did not like and said, all, right we ll take that to the supreme court on this ridiculous, bogus, fringe theory. and the independent state doctrine. and for any member of the court to put his or her name behind a decision, even if it s a dissenting opinion, to say that there is some validity to this theory. i think really calls into question you know, where that justice is coming from. yeah, well to that end, even if it s a narrow ruling, justice kagan today expressed concerns about it being used to fuel further conspiracies like the fake elector scheme. if the court does not stake out a very clear position on this, how concerned are you that it could be weaponized in elections down the line to support theories like the one proposed by john eastman? to allow states to send fake electors and to congress? but that s exactly the core point, we re not talk about someth
outstretched hands of mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy. and there are no handshakes given. now we can t know exactly what was running through the family s minds. the fact of matter is that while republicans like mcconnell and mccarthy have sought to separate themselves from the anti-democratic mob violence that we saw on january 6th, they and the parties still very much champion anti-democratic tactics. whether that s giving a platform to extremists who promote the big lie or whether that is embracing anti-democratic theories to undermine legitimate elections, that is what the republican party is doing right now. today the party is doing it with help from the con seven servetive justices, senator mcconnell installed on the supreme court. today the justices heard oral arguments in moore v. harper. it is a case that could upend american democracy as we know it. at the heart of the case is the independent state doctrine, a theory that would allow state