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Many left-wing anti-Semites claim to love Jews while condemning Zionism and Israel, though their comments in relation to Judaism shown otherwise.<ref>Brog, David (January 21, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/beware-the-fork-tongued-anti-semites-who-claim-to-love-jews Beware the fork-tongued anti-Semites who claim to love Jews]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved January 21, 2019.</ref>
Many left-wing anti-Semites claim to love Jews while condemning Zionism and Israel, though their comments in relation to Judaism shown otherwise.<ref>Brog, David (January 21, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/beware-the-fork-tongued-anti-semites-who-claim-to-love-jews Beware the fork-tongued anti-Semites who claim to love Jews]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved January 21, 2019.</ref>
Journalist in [[Germany]] decried on Islamic hate crimes being hidden and/or being portrayed as supposed "right wing" crimes.<ref>[https://medforth.biz/german-newspaper-complains-that-crime-statistics-on-anti-semitic-attacks-are-manipulated-to-hide-muslim-perpetrators/ German newspaper complains that crime statistics on anti-Semitic attacks are manipulated to hide Muslim perpetrators], Medforth| September 25, 2021.
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German politics misses the point when it comes to anti-Semitism. Journalist Lennart Pfahler is convinced of this. As he writes in the early edition of the newspaper “Welt am Sonntag” ( September 26), Muslim anti-Semitism is still taboo in Germany.
Whoever names it must fear being called a “right-winger” or a “fig leaf” if they are Muslim themselves. This is a “criminal failure of discourse”: “Apart from the police crime statistics, which have been blatantly misleading for years and which automatically classify alleged anti-Semitic crimes as ‘right-wing’ motivated if they cannot be attributed to anything else, there is little to support the convenient thesis of the marginal phenomenon.
In a survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 41 per cent of Jews in Germany said they felt most threatened by Islamic anti-Semitism.
Conservative politicians and Jewish associations regularly pointed out the problem. Too often, the response from “left-liberal columnists and Muslim activists” was appeasing. The debate about the broadcaster Nemi El-Hassan shows how much the fight against anti-Semitism has degenerated into a political question of opinion.
Background: German public broadcaster WDR wanted to hire the journalist as a presenter. After protests – among other things because of El-Hassan’s participation in an anti-Israel Al-Quds demonstration – WDR suspended its decision. Prominent voices now wanted to stall the reappraisal of the case, Pfahler writes. Especially for those Muslims who tried to address the issue in their own community, this defensive attitude was a slap in the face...</blockquote></ref>
==See also==
==See also==