In Germany, Muslims Bring a Resurgence of Antisemitism

Germany is said by Muslim antisemites to suffer from “Holocaust guilt” that prevents Germans from properly condemning the “apartheid” state, the colonial-settler state, the “genocidal” state of Israel. It is the Palestinians who are the new Jews, being tormented by the Israelis, who are the new Nazis — for some Muslims, even worse than the Nazis. The Muslims are now the main carriers of the virus of antisemitism in Germany, as they are all over Europe; they receive moral support, and other kinds, too, from those Germans on the far left who share their Jew-hatred. More on “Holocaust guilt” and the Muslim antisemites, whom the Germans so disastrously have allowed to settle in their midst by the millions, can be found here: “Germany’s ‘Holocaust guilt’ is shaken by Hamas pogrom,” by Ben Cohen, JNS, November 10, 2023:

In the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel, Germany is finding it harder and harder to mask the extremist underbelly of its politics.

A neo-Nazi group plastered a Holocaust memorial last week with stickers urging Germans to “get rid” of their “Holocaust guilt,” as well as declaring—in a sly nod to the argument often articulated about the feeble international response to the Holocaust—that “Israel murders while the world watches.” In the city of Essen, an Islamist group staged a pro-Hamas march that required the segregation of male and female participants, but representatives of both genders brandished signs accusing Israel of perpetrating a “Holocaust” in Gaza. In Berlin, a synagogue has been the target of an arson attack, and Jewish-owned homes have been daubed with Stars of David in another ominous echo of the Nazi period….

Yet it’s painfully clear that Germany’s well-meaning politicians are dealing with a genuine resurgence of antisemitism that they cannot control. On Nov. 9-10, Germans marked the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the infamous Nazi pogrom of 1938 that saw hundreds of Jews murdered, thousands more deported to concentration camps, and the burning and looting of synagogues and Jewish-owned stores over a period of less than 48 hours. For Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the occasion was an opportunity to issue a reminder that antisemitism has no place in post-Holocaust Germany. But for others, like the thousands of mainly Muslim demonstrators who have taken to the streets in support of the Hamas rapists and murderers, it was an opportunity of a different sort—namely, to challenge the Germans to dispense with their guilt about the Holocaust in the name of a “free Palestine.”…

German politicians are anxious about instituting measures to protect Jews that would erode their country’s much-vaunted status as a post-World War II beacon of ethnic and religious tolerance. But that won’t do. Postwar Germany has, of its own volition, made the protection of Jewish life a raison d’état of the democratic republic, and it is that stance that is caricatured as “Holocaust guilt.”

Right now, it is failing in that task. And if Germany can’t muster the determination to defeat antisemitism in the streets that spawned the Holocaust during the last century, then what chance is there that the rest of Europe will, or can, do so?

The Germans need to do whatever is necessary to protect the lives, property, and wellbeing of Jews in Germany. That should be at the center of state policy. And that means it has to recognize that it is not the “far right” that threatens Jews today, but the Muslims who started to flood into the country after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s disastrous policy of Wilkommen Kultur (“Welcoming Culture”) was implemented in 2015. In that year almost a million Muslims — economic migrants posing as asylum seekers — were allowed into Germany, and several hundred thousand have arrived in each year since. Merkel’s naive motto was “Wir schaffen das” (“We Can Do This”).

Islam-realists know there is no way to cure Muslims of their antisemitism; it is part of the texts and teachings of Islam. The German state should recognize this unpleasant fact, and for the sake of German Jews, call a halt to any more Muslims entering the country. It could also make Germany far less “welcoming” to those Muslims already in the country. Government benefits, for example, could be withheld for the first five years of an immigrant’s presence; for those five years that immigrant would have to support himself and his family without state aid; if he cannot find employment, he must accept whatever low-paying menial jobs the government provides. The German government could also cap the total value of benefits any migrant can receive from the government in a single year. There will be many Muslim economic migrants, once made aware that they face a far less attractive future in Germany than what they had earlier expected, who will choose to leave the country. And that is as it should be.