Leftist mayor of Jena Germany boycott Israel Neo Nazis applaud him so does Pax

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Isn't funny Neo Nazis feel so comfortable in a Leftist City    


 
 
 
   
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Neo-Nazis praise German mayor for Israel boycott
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JPOST CORRESPONDENT
06/05/2012 20:34
Wiesenthal Center mulls travel warning for city, says effort could lead to physical acts of anti-Semitism.
Schroter (second left) Photo: Thomas Peter/Reuters

BERLIN – The local branch of the neo-Nazi party (NPD) expressed solidarity for the campaign calling for a boycott of Israeli products that is supported by the German city of Jena’s Social Democratic Mayor Albrecht Schröter and the left-wing NGO Pax Christi.

The NPD branch in the state of Thuringia, where Jena is located, quickly issued accolades on Monday to Schröter on its website. The neo-Nazis wrote that he is “courageous” for his anti-Israel conduct and noted “as nationalists who have to deal every day with these Jewish/left-liberal defamation tactics, we think of Goethe’s sorcerer’s apprentice, who couldn’t get rid of the spirits he called.”
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Schröter refused to answer queries from The Jerusalem Post about whether the boycott was creating an anti-Israel and anti- Jewish climate in Jena. He reiterated his pro-boycott action in an opinion piece on Monday in the local Thüringische Landeszeitung.

According to the mayor, his goal “is to demand mandatory labeling of goods from illegal Israeli settlements that occupy Palestinian territory.” Anti-boycott critics say the boycott’s language is nebulous and sweeping, and results in a boycott of Israeli-labeled products.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s international director, Dr. Shimon Samuels, told the Post on Monday that the human rights group may issue a formal travel advisory to warn Diaspora Jews and Israelis about visits to the city because of the possibility of anti-Semitic violence.

Samuels said the Wiesenthal Center will “consider a travel advisory about Jena” because the anti-Israel boycott “campaign can result in physical [acts of] anti-Semitism.”

He cited the center’s 2010 warning issued against the Swedish city of Malmo because Social Democratic Mayor Ilmar Reepalu contributed to citysponsored anti-Semitism that endangered Jews.

“The boycott is a form of discrimination and illegal. It is not just a boycott against settlements; that is an excuse. It is a boycott against the State of Israel,” said Samuels.

“This is not the first time that we have had anti-Semitism from Pax Christi,” he continued, noting that the mayor and Pax Christi chose not to boycott states like Syria that are engaged in human rights violations.

Thuringia and the city of Jena are hotbeds of neo-Nazi activity. Kevin Zdiara, the deputy chairman of the German-Israel friendship society (DIG) in Thuringia’s capital Erfurt, told the Post that in Jena “there is a Nazi problem,” that the terrorists of the national socialist underground came from Jena and that Nazis continue to meet at the property of the “Brown House,” a local center for the far-right.

Zdiara, who first shined a light on the boycott in a German online publication, added that there is certainly enough for the mayor to do in Jena instead of issuing one-sided statements against Israel. He termed Schröter’s arguments “in certain areas to resemble anti-Zionist anti-Semitism” because the remarks meet Natan Sharansky’s 3-D test for modern anti-Semitism – demonization, double standards and delegitimization.

In an email to the Post on Tuesday, Dr. Moshe Kantor, the president of the European Jewish Congress, wrote, “Unfortunately, only eight decades since Jewish businesses were first boycotted, a German mayor supports a boycott of products from the Jewish state. With all the real and systematic human rights abuses happening in the world, the fact that a German mayor chooses to single out the only Jewish state cannot be overlooked.”

“While the mayor has automatically self-defended himself from accusations of anti-Semitism, this should fool no one. It meets all the criteria of the European Union’s working definition of anti-Semitism and should be rightly condemned,” Kantor continued.

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I thought they could be arrested for being openly neo-Nazi.

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I thought they could be arrested for being openly neo-Nazi.

I think they can be fined but it's probably up to the Leftist Mayor   



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Consumed with Jew hatred

Op-ed: How is it that German and Austrian leaders can expend so much energy decrying Israel?

Benjamin Weinthal
Published:    06.05.12, 11:27 / Israel Opinion
   

Late last month, European officials accused the Israelis of exaggerating the threat of a nuclear Iran, and called for Germans to boycott Israeli goods.

 

Austrian defense minister Norbert Darabos and Albrecht Schröter, mayor of the German town of Jena, both Social Democrats, made their remarks as the United States and its allies were heading into negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

 

In an interview with the Austrian daily Die Presse, Darabos accused the Israelis of using the danger of an Iranian nuclear weapon to deflect attention from their domestic problems. Meanwhile, Schröter signed a petition from the left-wing Christian peace group Pax Christi calling for a wide-ranging boycott of Israeli products in response to the construction of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories. On Monday he expressed the same view in an opinion article in Thüringische Landeszeitung
 
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To his credit, conservative Austrian foreign minister Michael Spindelegger said Mr. Darabos’ position does not represent the policies of the national government, but Darabos nonetheless remains defense minister, and social democratic Chancellor Werner Faymann shows no sign of disciplining or dismissing him.

 

Mr. Darabos issued a lengthy statement detailing his participation in Holocaust commemoration events and efforts to combat neo-Nazism in Austria. Yet as Austrian Jewish community leader Oskar Deutsch puts it, Mr. Darabos “has problems with living Jews.”

 

Schröter’s critics level harsher charges at him. As Kevin Zdiara, deputy chairman of the German-Israeli Friendship Society, pointed out, the mayor’s proposal might as well reflect the Nazi-era slogan “Don’t Buy from Jews.”

 

In response, Schröter invoked “my uncompromising commitment against the neo-Nazis.” Though the mayor played on his anti-fascist credentials, he nonetheless showed little discomfort when the local arm of the NDP, the leading German neo-Nazi party, praised his calls for a boycott

 

In a statement on the NDP website, the party praised Schröter’s campaign, declaring him to be “courageous” because “as nationalists who have to deal every day with these Jewish/left-liberal defamation tactics, we think of Goethe's Sorcerer's Apprentice, who couldn't get rid of the spirits he called.“

Double Standards

 
‘Vera Lengsfeld, a prominent civil rights activist born in the Thuringia region of what was once East Germany, and a former Christian Democratic Union deputy in the Bundestag, neatly captured Schröter’s misplaced priorities.

 

In a post on the popular pro-American blog” The Axis of Good,” she wrote that “the mayor failed to focus the city’s resources on preventing the delivery of weapons to a neo-Nazi terrorist group, the National Socialist Underground, and is consumed instead with criticizing Israel.”

 

Like Zdiara, Lengsfeld blasted Schröter for seeking to keep the city “pure from Jewish goods.” “Jena must immediately vote in a new head of the city,” she said, “because the good man can no longer govern.”

 

Schröter’s peculiar obsession with Israel has led him to participate in demonstrations denouncing it in the West Bank, and to deliver a lecture at a pro-Hamas conference in Bad Boll, Germany.

 

Other German critics charge Schröter of maintaining moral double standards. Thomas von der Osten-Sacken, head of the Middle East relief assistance organization Wadi, said “so long as one does not find a call by Pax Christi that from now on products from Syria, Iran or Saudi Arabia (to name just three examples) should come with the logo that the goods come from a country in which torture exists in violation of human rights, the action is completely anti-Israel and anti-Semitic, because Israel is issued special treatment.”

 

“Why does Mr. Schröter see no occasion to call for a boycott against products from the anti-Semitic Islamic Republic of Iran,” add Klaus Faber and Daniel Kilpert, two representatives of the Coordinating Council of German Non-Governmental Organizations against Anti-Semitism, “or from North Sudan, which has engaged in many massacres?”

 

How is it that German and Austrian leaders can expend so much energy decrying Israel, whose impact on them is negligible, and so little on Iran, a regime that mows down its dissidents on their soil, and now aims to build nuclear weapons?

 

Benjamin Weinthal is a Berlin-based Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies