link» German report: 20% of Germans are anti-Semitic, Jerusalem Post
*This is from Jerusalem Post, Israel’s quite right leaning outlet.
But when *current* Germany says 1 out of 5 person is ‘Antisemitic’ - I wondered can it be simple ‘white’ phenomenon based on Christianity or - something more complex than that. Need more clues. But probably the original report published in German won’t become available in English, and there won’t be real (historical) discussions…
Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, a member of the ten member commission, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, that the “experts came to the conclusion that the ideology of the Iranian regime is anti-Semitic.” According to the report, “The state anti-Semitism is, however, not only relevant on the propaganda level” in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The study notes that Iran’s anti-Semitic ideology plays a role in Germany.
When asked what the report means by Iran’s regime not limiting its anti-Semitism to its domestic agenda, Wahdat-Hagh said, Iran supports foreign anti-Semitic entities “militarily, financially and ideologically.” He cited the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
In Germany the strong presence of Iran’s regime is located in Hamburg. “In view of the facts that the political head of Iran is also considered a spiritual figure for many extremist thinkingMuslims,” wrote the commission’s authors. The study says that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader in Iran, is the sponsor of the Islamic Center in Hamburg (IZH).
[Dr. Clemens Heni] told the Post on Tuesday, “according to a 2003 poll by the European Commission 65% of Germans see Israel as the ‘biggest threat’ on a worldwide scale. In fact the numbers are probably even higher, over 80% at least, who have a more or less have an anti-Israel stand. The reports ignores this, as well as the term ‘Islamofascism,’ which is an important term to understand the pro-Nazi attitude of many Muslim and Arab anti-Semites.”
Dr. Heni, who was not a member of the commission, faulted the study for “ignoring leading scholars in the field like Robert S. Wistrich, Jeffrey Herf, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Daniel Pipes, Martin Kramer among many others.”
January 26, 2012, 5:26pm 0 notes
