Returning Violence Against Jews to Germany

It's become a sad part of daily life, which shows videos on the Internet that document antisemites in Germany. Once they burn a Jewish flag, they are shown a man who swears to the owner of a Jewish restaurant about gas rooms. Each time they cause a wave of concern. Politicians promise to do anything to protect Jews in Germany. They draw attention to history, for responsibility, also assign a special task against anti - Semitism, to announce information and education initiatives. And they talk about complex challenges, which exist in this country, which only accepts now and is very late officially that it is a place of immigration.

A Natural and Fearless Hatred

The current video shows with brutality that all of this will not be enough to counter a fearless natural hatred, which people like this young man express unreservedly against the Jews: in the heart of Berlin, in a lively square, and in the middle of the day, a young Arab beats a young man who carries a kipa, and thus you should assume he is Jewish. He doesn't wear a mask. On the contrary, I know they're filming him, the victim keeps his camera in front of his face. And it calls out several times clearly: “I'm filming, filming!” It's very obvious that the Extremists are making it so obvious that his act is being documented, that they will know who it is and probably the police will find it.

What is currently happening in Germany? This video is shocking evidence that German society must urgently find further answers so that it can preserve the basic rules of our coexistence. Common punishment seems not enough to scare such hands.

Perhaps you understand better if you take a look at the schoolyards. Teachers and teachers have been trying to make sense of how natural it has been as young people swear at each other with the word <x0bra”hebra”. Even a look at rap lyrics proves that more and more social consensus is being abandoned that anti - Semitic expressions have no work in this country and that these expressions should not be relativized and should not be accepted in any way.

Will Germany fight for its values and freedoms?

It would be a mistake to say that a Jew today must wait to be attacked on the streets of Germany if it is obvious which religion he belongs to. But it would be just as wrong to say that a Jew in principle should not fear being attacked on the streets of Germany as soon as his religion becomes evident.

And the correct one is certainly not enough. Germany has arrived at a point in which it must decide how clearly it is willing to fight for its values of civilization and social freedoms.

/DW