The founding of the Association “Jews in the AfD” provides a tremendous amount of attention – and for a lot of criticism from Jewish organizations. Now the Association has presented to the Public. From Heritage Home Astrid Prange.
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Jewish AfD-members grounds Association
The blessing of the Union by a Rabbi, the members of the new group have not thought about “Jews in the AfD” (JAfD). But Wolfgang Fuhl, Vice-Chairman, would not object to such a blessing nothing.
Fuhl is a Jew and was Chairman of the Oberrats of the “Israelite religious community Baden”. With obvious satisfaction, he announced this Sunday in heritage home, the establishment of a Jewish group in the party. Around 20 AfD-members of the Initiative. The majority comes from the environment of the Russian Germans.
“We want to put a sign,” says one of the co-founder, does not want to give his name and with the “lying press” don’t talk. “I, as a foreign Jew, am a member of the allegedly xenophobic AfD. There’s something not right. We either spiders or the Merkel!”.
“Merkel has divided the Jews in Germany”
Members of the “Jewish students’ Union of Germany” protest in Frankfurt against the Association “Jews in the AfD”
The argument about who is crazy and who is not, will continue after the establishment of the group – and the gap between Jews inside and outside of the AfD. Already in the run-up to the founding of the event by 17 Jewish organizations and associations were criticized in a joint statement, the AfD Initiative sharp.
“The AfD is a party, in the hatred of the Jews and the relative to the denial of the Shoah a home. The AfD is anti-democratic, inhuman, and in many Parts quite radically. The party is a case for the protection of the Constitution, but not for Jews in Germany,” the statement said, joined by, among others, the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Federal traditional Jews, as well as the General Rabbi conference.
JAfD-Vice-Fuhl counters the criticism of the Jewish organizations with the accusation of “dependency”. “The Central Council of Jews is opposed to us diametrically opposed,” he said. “Jewish communities in Germany need government subsidies, we reject this.” Now Merkel have split the Jews in Germany, the majority opinion of the co-founders.
“The ban on Shechita is a Problem”
And then Fuhl took advantage of the public attention, to criticize the AfD program written ban on Shechita in its own way: “The ban on Shechita is a Problem. But in Switzerland, Jewish communities have survived in spite of ban on Shechita, in Germany, they were destroyed.”
The martial style of the event was also felt outside the hall in the house of a citizen in a heritage home. 18 team car, the police secured the event. Inside there were armed security forces, and folders with buttons in the ear, and dark sunglasses.
Russian-speaking Jews with sympathy for the AfD
Two participants in the founding event of the “Jews in the AfD”
Fear played in the founding of the Association “Jews in the AfD” a role – specifically the Muslim refugees. A founding member Artur Abramovych did away with the idea that the experience of the Jewish Diaspora might lead to more understanding towards refugees or the affirmation of Migration. “This picture is wrong, and this is precisely the reason why the establishment of the platform ‘Jews in the AfD’ was long overdue,” said Abramovych, who had come at the age of two with his parents from Ukraine to Germany.
According to the Jewish activist Sacha Stawski, who operates the Internet platform “Honestly Concerned”, are especially the immigrant Russian-speaking Jews of sympathy for the AfD to watch similar to it in Parts of the Russian-Germans. Many of them were convinced that Muslim refugees a lot more integration were today allegedly help than the Jewish immigrants, ten or twenty years ago.
Criticism of religious associations within the AfD
Jews against Jews, Christians against Christians? The religious associations within the AfD can be seen outside of the party is extremely skeptical. Only recently, the German Protestant Church Congress, announced that in the coming year, no representatives of the “Christians in the AfD” more on the Podium to invite.
AfD-member of the German Bundestag Volker Münz, spokesman for the platform “Christians in the AfD”, can’t understand this. He not only believes that the party program of the AfD with the Christian Faith is compatible, but is also firmly convinced that this also applies to the Jewish Faith. Coin: “The AfD is the political protection of the Jews in Germany.”