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Germany's Approach to Countering Antisemitism since Reunification
Author(s): Just, Thomas
Date: 2021
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Education against, Diplomacy, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Law, Policy
Abstract: Since reunification in 1990, the German government has taken numerous steps to counter antisemitism and improve its relations with the Jewish community more broadly. Its approach has consisted primarily of two parts: anti-radicalization legal measures and public diplomacy. In terms of legal measures, Germany has banned hate speech and incitement, adjusted immigration policy for Jews, and granted Judaism full legal status. In terms of public diplomacy, Germany has created a network of both governmental and non-governmental organizations to counter antisemitic attitudes within domestic society and to demonstrate progress abroad. This article examines these facets of the German approach, evaluates its success through an analysis of extremist group membership and survey data measuring antisemitic attitudes, and discusses some evolving challenges to which the approach must adapt.
Antisemitism in the “Alternative for Germany” Party
Author(s): Salzborn, Samuel
Date: 2018
Topics: Antisemitism: Far right, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Politics
Abstract: The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been sitting in Germany’s federal parliament since September 2017, having won 12.6 percent of the popular vote. In considering this young party’s recent development, researchers have focussed on its rhetorical strategies (i.e., populism) and its radicalization. Until now, much less attention has been paid to antisemitism within the AfD—also because the party would prefer to keep this out of public debate. By investigating its treatment of antisemitism, Nazism, and the politics of remembrance, it can be shown that the AfD has the features of a far-right party, to a much clearer extent than might be guessed from its media image, particularly inside Germany.
Cultural Reparations? Jews and Jewish Studies in Germany Today
Author(s): Donahue, William Collins; Cohn, Robert L.
Date: 1997
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish Studies, Jewish Revival, Post-1989
(Re)constructing Community in Berlin: Turks, Jews, and German Responsibility
Author(s): Laurence, Jonathan
Date: 2001
Topics: Immigration, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islam, Main Topic: Other
“We Don’t Want to Be the Jews of Tomorrow”: Jews and Turks in Germany after 9/11
Author(s): Yurdakul, Gökçe
Date: 2006
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Multiculturalism, Islamophobia, Racism, Antisemitism, Immigration, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: This article examines how German Turks employ the German Jewish trope to establish an analogous discourse for their own position in German society. Drawing on the literature on immigrant incorporation, we argue that immigrants take more established minority groups as a model in their incorporation process. Here, we examine how German Turks formulate and enact their own incorporation into German society. They do that, we argue, by employing the master narrative and socio-cultural repertoire of Germany's principal minority, German Jewry. This is accomplished especially in relation to racism and antisemitism, as an organizational model and as a political model in terms of making claims against the German state. We argue that in order to understand immigrant incorporation, it is not sufficient to look at state-immigrant relations only—authors also need to look at immigrant groups' relationships with other minority groups.