Recently I wrote about how a German court ruled against the mayor of Sprockhövel. The mayor was required to retract the statement that the left-wing "historian" Werner Rügemer was an anti-Semite - this despite the fact that Rügemer has made numerous anti-Semitic statements in his writings and speeches for years.
It turns out that this was not just an isolated case. German courts don't seem to have a clue about how to rule on anti-Semitism. Recently, for example, a court in Munich decided that anti-Semitism is only associated with the policies of the Third Reich, and an anti-Semite is a person who supports the Nazi regime's mass-murder of Jews.
This was the court's finding in the Elsässer-Ditfurth Trial:
"„Ein glühender Antisemit in Deutschland ist jemand, der mit Überzeugung sich antisemitisch äußert, mit einer Überzeugung, die das Dritte Reich nicht verurteilt, und ist nicht losgelöst von 1933 bis 1945 zu betrachten, vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte.“
Since nobody, except the most deranged Nazi, would support mass murder, this court ruling means that anti-Semitism effectively doesn't exist today in Germany.
And then there is the case of the AfD (right-wing "Alternative for Germany Party") politician Jan-Ulrich Weiss, who posted a photo of the banker Jacob Rothschild on his Facebook page with the caption:
„Hallo, mein Name ist Jacob Rothschild, meine Familie ist mehr als 500 Trillionen Dollar schwer, wir haben weltweit so gut wie jede Zentralbank in Besitz, wir finanzieren immer beide Seiten von jedem Krieg, schon seit Napoleon, wir steuern Deine Nachrichten, Medien, Öl und Deine Regierung. Du hast wahrscheinlich noch nie von mir gehört.“
("Hello, my name is Jacob Rothschild, my family controls more than $500 trillion, we own worldwide practically every central bank, since Napolean we finance both sides of every war, we control the news, media, oil and your government. No doubt you've never heard of me.")
I've written about how the Rothschild-Federal Reserve Bank Conspiracy is a favorite trope of anti-Semites around the world. Unbelievably, in this case the court ruled that Jan-Ulrich Weiss was merely expressing criticism of the banking system instead of inciting against "world Jewry."
„Das war kein Angriff gegen das Weltjudentum, sondern Kritik am Finanzsystem.“
It is outrageous and unacceptable that a German court would use the word Weltjudentum ("world Jewry") - a favorite expression of the Nazis that conjures up the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Meanwhile, there has been a dramatic surge of anti-Semitic reader comments and social media postings. Now that the German courts refuse to act the posters no longer feel the need to hide their identities.
Hört hier jemand das Gras wachsen? ;-)
Posted by: Zyme | July 13, 2016 at 04:10 PM