Says germany needs a more inclusive no more. of culture and more backbone in the fight against all forms of marginalization and we re very pleased to have alan posner on the show once again he s a commentator for the daily newspaper devoted he says jews everywhere are held responsible for every real or imagined injustice perpetrated by israel and finally very glad to welcome them so mikulski to the show he s the director of human rights watch and he has experienced the problem we re talking about first hand he says anti-semitism in germany is escalating and increasingly normalized and the state is responding to slovenia. hamish asking if it was indeed your son who suffered the abuse that i referred to at the opening of the show would you tell us a little bit about what happened there. yeah he was new at the school and at the
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 put it 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 what they were showing on t w. i always felt it was better not to say i m jewish. really yeah i don t see it that way yeah. 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 not even if that s not how it is for use as if it were secret and assist i know i m jewish. my kitchen discuss their problem this is
Changed because they were always aware of this my daughter 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 profitable that this image 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 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. look israel is
Says germany needs a more inclusive no more. culture and more backbone in the fight against all forms of marginalization and we re very pleased to have alan posner on the show once again he s a commentator for the daily newspaper he says jews everywhere are held responsible for every real or imagined injustice perpetrated by israel and finally very glad to welcome them so mikulski to the show he s the director of human rights watch and he has experienced the problem we re talking about the first time around he says anti-semitism in germany is escalating and increasingly normalized and the state is responding too slowly. it was indeed your son who suffered the abuse that i referred to at the opening of the show would you tell us a little bit about what happened there. yeah he was new at the school and at the
A defining fact of germany s post-war identity and the country has worked to confront it yet anti-semitic attacks are on the rise in germany the political dissent of the right wing nationalist party now represented in parliament is provoking deep concern among germans and in jewish communities so too is the recent influx of muslim immigrants a recent study by the american jewish committee documents widespread anti-semitism amongst them in one widely reported incident last year a jewish pupil the grandson of holocaust survivors quit his berlin high school after suffering mobbing and abuse at the hands of arab and turkish classmates living in fear how anti-semitic is germany that s our topic this week on quadriga and here are our guests it s a pleasure to welcome kristen hell back she s a freelance journalist who recently wrote a book about syrian refugees in germany and the fears and prejudices they evoke she