The German chancellor promised Jews on Thursday that they will “never again” be victims of anti-Semitism in Germany, as he spoke at the ceremony commemorating the 85th anniversary of “Kristalnacht”, as the anti-Jewish ‘pogroms’ became known under the Nazi regime.
The pledge to tolerate anti-Semitism “never again” “must be fulfilled now,” Olaf Scholz said at the Beth Zion synagogue in the heart of Berlin, along with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the head of the Central Committee of Jews in Berlin. Germany, Josef Schuster.
In a context of an increase in anti-Semitic acts since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, on October 7, both in Germany and in almost all of Europe, Scholz reaffirmed the promise “on which democratic Germany is based” and refused all relations with ‘pogroms’, a Russian word meaning ‘to cause havoc, to destroy by force’ and which was ‘recovered’ to define the Nazi persecution of the Jews.
“Any form of anti-Semitism poisons our society. As is currently the case with Islamist demonstrations,” said the German Chancellor, promising to “prosecute all those who support terrorism and are anti-Semites.”
Scholz recalled that, with the entry into force of a new citizenship law, no anti-Semite in Germany will be able to naturalize.
The warning comes at a time when numerous anti-Semitic incidents are being committed in Germany by Muslims and people of Arab descent.
On October 7, after Hamas’s surprise offensive in Israel, the Samidoun network distributed cakes to the mainly Arab and Turkish population of Berlin’s Neukölln district to celebrate the Palestinian “victory of resistance.”
The pro-Palestinian group Samidoun, which eventually became illegal in Germany, defines itself as a solidarity network with Palestinian prisoners and published on social media photos of pro-Palestinian activists handing out sweets in Berlin to celebrate the Hamas attack in Israel.
Recently, the German Federal Police announced that it had counted approximately 2,000 crimes related to the war in the Middle East.
Destroyed and vandalized by members of the Schutzstaffel (SS – in Portuguese “Protection Troop”) and the Hitler Youth on the night of November 9 to 10, 1938, the “Kristalnacht”, like many other synagogues, businesses and houses of Jewish communities, the Beth Zion Synagogue was targeted with Molotov cocktails on October 18 this year, which caused no property damage or injuries.
Source: DN
