Blaming migrants for the rise in anti-Jewish crimes shows a breathtaking lack of self-awareness
It could have been a Mitchell and Webb sketch – a man with a very German accent and a distinguished Nazi grandfather complaining: “These foreigners, coming over here, importing their antisemitism.” Only this was not a comedy. The man was Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and he was making his complaint last month in an interview with Fox news in the US, attributing rising antisemitism in Germany to “the big numbers of migrants we have within the last 10 years”. How did Merz manage to miss the joke – apart from by being German of course?
There is no bigger proponent of antisemitism than Israel itself, and Germany is its bitch.
Can confirm we are it’s bitch.
And the rift that has been growing between that what is represented and what the people think will also cause issues at some point.