German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/197, pp. 25719-25720.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
We stand today before the end of the quite grand illusion: Trump again President of the United States and the Ampel at an end – a real double Wumms! And now this admission of the former Ampel parties and of the Union with this common motion for Jewish lives: Yes, the exploding Judenhass in Germany has something to do with immigration and with Islam.
Kordula
Schulz-Asche (Greens): And with the AfD!
I can still well remember all of your gasping here – primarily by the Greens – as the AfD warned of imported Moslem anti-semitism. Now we read in this motion – co-introduced by the Greens – of anti-semitism which is based on, cite: “Immigration from the countries of North Africa and the Near and Middle East”.
Leni
Breymaier (SPD): And on rightist extremism!
Those are the Green figures for imported Moslem anti-semitism. You have restrained the reality.
And the solution proposal in your motion also goes in our
direction: Cite: “Exhaust punitive possibilities, especially in criminal and
citizenship law, and in asylum and residency law”. In German: Remove Moslem
anti-semites on the aircraft and in the homeland. “Tschüss!” and not “Auf Wiedersehen!”
You finally recognize that in addition to your mantra-charged, extreme right anti-semitism there are also dangers from the left.
Britta Haßelmann (Green): With what
chutzpah you at all speak here! Take a peek at the “Sächsischen Separatisten”! With AfD covering! It is not to be taken
seriously, your contribution as an AfDer here, with your rightist extremism!
You name that the “leftist, anti-imperialist anti-semitism”. And for your fight, you now also take up our proposal. You want to test the ban on the BDS movement. Here you need test nothing and rediscover the wheel. Our motion to ban is long since put forward. That even a portion of the Greens meanwhile take up AfD positions, we name “Zeitenwende” [change of times].
The problem with all of these resolutions is: With you, action never follows. Only the AfD will implement what you ever only demand,
Britta Haßelmann (Green): Think of your Gauland! “Vogelschiss in der Geschichte”! Gauland citation! Enough!
Konstantin
von Notz (Greens): “Sächsischen
Separatisten”, Frau von Storch!
and that quite practical and concrete; for example, no more public money to colleges and cultural undertakings for Judenhass and Israel enmity.
It is little surprising that resistance to that comes from the left wing of the Greens.
Britta Haßelmann (Green): Is it about Jewish lives in Germany here?
Katharina Droge (Greens): Of course
for Frau von Storch it’s not about Jewish lives in Germany! Who comes from so
extreme a rightist party, is certainly not interested in Jewish lives in
Germany!
The Greens’ national working groups for migration and refuge, for peace and international and for culture, fear, cite: “The instrumentalization …by rightist actors, and the targeted defamation and undermining of civil society work”.
Translated into German: You are afraid that the AfD has seized the theme, and leftist and Moslem anti-semites lose their state feeding troughs. Here, I can only say to you: You are fully right to be worried.
In the political left, there is an obsessive hatred of the State of Israel; for this anti-imperialist left, Israel is a racist, a colonizing, a white apartheid state which should disappear from the map.
Britta Haßelmann (Green): Look at “Sächsischen Separatisten”! And the state associations which have been classified extreme right!
The leftists hate Israel because the Jewish state represents all that Europe once was, and what they hate: A strong state, self-conscious, national, religious, prepared to protect its cultural identity and defend its borders. These Greens have spoken out against their own resolution because they know that the fight against anti-semitism today primarily affects the left and its darling Moslem minority. It’s not right-wing extremists who occupy universities, drive Jewish judges from the podium, and gather in masses in the streets behind the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah and chant “from the river to the sea”. Those are Moslems and leftists.
Does anyone believe that without Merkel’s border opening Jews would not live here more safely? Do you believe that, Herr Merz? Do you believe that, Herr von Notz? You know that I am right.
Reality can be pushed aside, yet reality sooner or later catches up. That is unavoidable, and that has come to pass.
The time of lies and extenuations is over. The defenders of
Jewish lives and the friends of the Jewish state are today not found on the
left, but on the democratic right side; with the AfD, with Geert Wilders, with
Viktor Orbán, and with Donald Trump in whose election all democrats in this
house very heartily rejoice.
Many thanks.
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