German politicians are part of “Anti-Israel International”, says the expert

Henryk Broder, Germany’s leading authority on contemporary anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic, wrote on Monday that numerous left-wing German politicians were anti-Israeli because they signed a letter criticizing Israel’s plan to exercise sovereignty over parts of the controversial West Bank testified in the Bundestag about new forms of hatred of Jews since the Holocaust, entitled his article “The Anti-Israeli International “ on the popular journalist website “The Axis of the Good”. Broder has an important readership in German-speaking countries.

He mocked German politicians from the Left, Social Democrats and Greens who signed the protest letter for not addressing the occupation of Northern Cyprus by Turkey, the annexation of Crimea by Russia, and the occupation of Tibet by the state as a form of double standard . Israel’s democracy is highlighted, while non-democratic nations that commit massive human rights crimes are not targeted. The German politicians of the European Parliament and the Bundestag as well as other politicians wrote in their letter of June 23: “We, parliamentarians from all over Europe committed to a rules-based world order, share serious concerns about President Trump’s plan for the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the imminent prospect an Israeli annexation of the West Bank. We are deeply concerned about the precedent this would set for international relations as a whole. â€Some of the German politicians who signed the letter are promoting the boycott, sanctions and divestment campaign against Israel or have failed to do so within their Die SPD MP Aydan Özoguz sits on the advisory board of the BDS-friendly German-Palestinian Society (DPG). The DPG demanded the termination of the EU-Israel “Association Agreement” precisely because of the dispute over sovereignty. Özoguz, whose constituency is in the city-state of Hamburg, declined to answer inquiries from the Jerusalem Post. Daniel Killy, spokesman for the Hamburg Jewish Community, told the Post that in his role as a board member of the German-Israeli Friendship Society, “membership in the German-Palestinian Society and a simultaneous commitment to Israel are mutually exclusive. The three members of the Bundestag Özuguz, Nouripour and Buchholz have to decide where they stand. And whoever follows the German state doctrine and thus accepts Israel’s security as not worth discussing, cannot and must not be a member of an organization that glorifies terror. â€Would only be a matter of course. Should the membership, however, hide more than ignorance and should it be an expression of a clear anti-Israel stance, these three parliamentarians are no longer acceptable to represent the German people. “
The GREEN MP Clauda Roth also signed the letter. 2019 Germany’s largest newspaper image Roth “made anti-Semitism socially acceptable” in Germany because she hugged the Iranian regime’s Holocaust denier Ali Larijani. Cem Özdemir, a member of the Green Party, also signed the letter. Özdemir has declined to comment on Roth’s alleged mainstreaming of Larijani, which is pushing for the destruction of Israel. Özdemir also remained indifferent to alleged anti-Semitic BDS activities by the Greens’ foreign policy spokesman, Omid Nouripour, who sits on the advisory board of the DPG. Nouripour has refused to answer postal inquiries about his role in the DPG and is demanding sanctions against the Jewish state. The Green MP Jürgen Trittin also signed the letter. Trittin praised the anti-Semitic left-wing terrorist Dieter Kunzelmann, who died in 2018 and who allegedly tried to blow up the Jewish community center in Berlin in 1969. Kunzelmann trained with Palestinian terrorists, defending her party’s initiative in 2013 to label Jewish products from the disputed areas, which is considered a BDS activity. A year before the Greens, the NPD formulated a similar law in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Left MP Sahra Wagenknecht also signed the letter. Wagenknecht and Christine Buchholz, MPs of the Left, refused to take part in a standing ovation for the former President Shimon Peres in 2010 on Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Bundestag. and has defended the “resistance” of the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah against the Jewish state. Wagenknecht’s refusal to take part in the standing ovation for Peres was praised by the NPD. The Left Party politician Heike Hänsel also signed the letter. In 2014, the human rights organization Simon Wiesenthal Center included Hansel in the top ten list of the worst outbreaks of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli activity. Hansel invited the BDS spokesman to give a lecture in the Bundestag.