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2025-06-07 Europe

Merz: 'We have imported antisemitism with big numbers of migrants'

How very clever of him to notice. Now that he has, what does he intend to do about it?

[DW] Chancellor Friedrich Merz has told US media that migration is a factor behind the rise in antisemitism in Germany.

In an interview with Fox News, Merz was asked what he was doing to combat antisemitism in Germany and he said: "This is, especially for Germany, a terrible challenge that we are faced with such an amount of cases of antisemitism in Germany."

"We are doing everything we can to bring these numbers down," Merz continued. "We are prosecuting those who are against the law. And frankly, we have a sort of imported antisemitism with the big numbers of migrants we have within the last 10 years, and we have to tackle this and we have to resolve this problem."

"I would like to make it very clear, that the German government, and the vast majority of the German parliament, is strictly against antisemitism and against these people and we are doing everything we can to bring these numbers down."

Merz's comments come on the back of data which earlier this week showed the rising numbers in antisemitic incidents in Germany.

In 2024, 8,627 antisemitic incidents occurred — 77% more than in 2023.

The data published by the Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS) showed that of the cases documented, 5,857 were classified as "antisemitism related to Israel."

A total of 544 cases were attributed to right-wing extremist views.

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#1 How very clever of him to notice. Now that he has, what does he intend to do about it?

He will let an additional group of 2500 Afghans flood into the country. (link in German)

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-06-07 02:34|| 2025-06-07 02:34|| Front Page || Comments Top

#2 Don't worry about the imports, there was still a good amount of residual left over from before 1945.

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