[Dec 04 2011] BERLIN - The German publicly funded radio station RBB’s decision in late November to dismiss Ken Jebsen, a well-known leftist radio host who denied the Holocaust occurred and bashed Israel, has brought to the fore a growing expression of hybrid anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic. A telling example of where the intersection of right-wing, left-wing and Islamic anti-Semitism unfolds is the annual pro-al-Quds day rally in Berlin.
Jochen Feilcke, the head of the German- Israeli Friendship Society in Berlin and Potsdam, has remarked about the al-Quds demonstration that “Once again, the participation of neo-Nazis and other sympathizers of the mullah regime is expected and their goal is clear: Expressions of solidarity with the Palestinians will be used as agitation against Israel, the only free democracy in the Middle East.”
The al-Quds demonstration has been an annual event in Berlin since 1996 and advocates the destruction of the Jewish state.Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini established al-Quds Day in 1979 and it is now marked in the Islamic Republic and throughout the Arab world by calling for the abolition of Israel.
The neo-Nazi German People’s Party (DVU) – a sister party of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) – pushed its supporters to attend the al- Quds event. Jürgen Elsässer, a leftist journalist, urged German leftists to march with the pro-Iran regime activists.
German experts in the field of contemporary anti-Semitism define the phenomenon as “Querfront” anti-Semitism, which roughly translates as “crossover.” The fusion of hate ideologies coalesces the radical left and extreme right with fanatical Islamism.
Jebsen declared in an e-mail in November that “I know who invented the Holocaust as PR” and has said that there should be a Yad Vashem “in Palestine” to “commemorate the Palestinian victims who were murdered through Israel’s occupation.”Jebsen termed the September 11 attacks in the US to be a “terror-lie” and chalked up the Islamic-animated terror acts to an American-based conspiracy.
Germany, for Jebsen, is a “vassal” of the United States.Alex Feuerherdt, a German author and journalist who has written extensively about cross-over anti-Semitism, told The Jerusalem Post that “primarily over the last years a milieu has steadily developed in Germany, in which authors and activists, who position themselves as left, represent multiple views, which are expressed by right-wing extremists as well as by Islamists.
One could define as ‘Querfront’ the various connections between the different political camps – which at first glance appear to be more separate than connected.”
Germany is seeing return of many Jews - but also kind of tolerating seedy undergrowth of this kind huh.
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