Bild.de looks at the study of antisemitism in Europe released yesterday and dives in deeper on the situation in Germany.
Frightening: In no country have so many Jews experienced anti-Semitic harassment as in Germany. 41 percent said they had had an anti-Semitic experience last year, 52 percent in the past five years - both well above the EU average (28 percent and 39 percent).
The Jews draw their lessons: 75 percent of German interviewees abstain - sometimes, often or always - from wearing Jewish symbols in public. 46 percent of Jews in Germany avoid entering certain areas. In plain English this means: There are no-go areas for Jews.
Felix Klein, anti-Semitism commissioner of the Federal Government, is shocked. "The fact that people identified as Jews do not want to enter certain areas for fear of hostility is something I find alarming," says Klein to BILD. He promises: "I will fight against this!"
Does this promise come too late? According to the survey, 38 percent of European Jews have thought about emigrating in the last five years because they no longer feel safe as Jews. Here, too, is Germany (next to France) with 44 percent is the sad leader.
But one question remains: where does anti-Semitism come from?
The results of the new EU survey contradict the police crime statistics (PKS). In 2017, the PKS recorded 1,504 anti-Semitic offenses and allocated 94 percent to the right-wing spectrum. Only five percent of the deeds were said have a Muslim motive.
The survey provides a completely different picture: 41 percent of the Jews surveyed in Germany stated that the perpetrators had a Muslim background. Other political offender groups were much less common - rightists with 20 percent and leftists with 16 percent.
"This data is a slap in the face," says historian and journalist Michael Wolffsohn to BILD. "They refute the political and media emphasis on anti-Semitism. The danger from the right exists, but it is not the greatest danger. "
Wolffsohn demands:" Those responsible must name the issue by name and finally act. The integration of Muslims is a human and political matter of course. But crimes committed by Muslims must be punished, not sugar coated for political correctness. "
For a long time there has been criticism of the assignment of anti-Semitic offenses to political motives. Anti-Semitism Commissioner Felix Klein also expressed doubts: "According to the police crime statistics only about 5 percent of the anti-Semitic offenses committed by Muslims. We must pursue this great deviation from the statements of Jews on anti-Semitic experiences! "
In this sad study, however, one number is remarkable. Despite Muslim anti-Semitism, Europe's and Germany's Jews worry about Muslims.
72 percent of European and 89 percent of German Jews said that intolerance towards Muslims has increased over the past five years. 57 percent of European and 54 percent of German Jews see this intolerance as a major social problem.
"Almost exemplary is the tolerance of the Jewish victim group, their compassion and concern for those from whom they experience the most intolerance, the Muslims," says Michael Wolffsohn to BILD. And says: "That is, in cliché, downright Christian charity."