He is a Jew and he will remain a Jew, no matter how much he hates it.” I suppose that he hates being a Jew and deep down wishes he were not a Jew… Bernstein lives in a fantasy world. Shalicar, a reserve major in the Israel Defense Forces, a former IDF spokesman and at present the head of the foreign relations department in the Ministry of Intelligence Affairs, wrote the following about Bernstein in his 2018 German-language book, “The New-German Anti-Semite: Do Jews Belong to Germany?”: “Reiner Bernstein likes dead Jews in Germany and honors them with ‘stumbling stones’ but with living Jews in Israel he has a problem, and therefore he supports an organization that calls for a boycott of living Jews… Bernstein is a Jew who suffers from self-hatred. As a consequence, he was recently vilified by Arye Sharuz Shalicar, a German-born official living in Israel, who is a central spokesman of the pro-Israel lobby in Germany. Reiner Bernstein, who headed the Stolpersteine project for six years in that city. I learned about the Munich ban during a conversation with a local resident, Dr.

The apex of their success had been the bizarre resolution adopted this year by a large majority in the Bundestag categorizing BDS (the boycott, divestments and sanctions movement, which is totally marginal in Germany) as anti-Semitic. The group intended to hold a discussion with a journalist from Der Spiegel, one of the authors of an in-depth investigative report published in the weekly about the problematic activity of a pro-Israel lobby in Germany that urges local politicians to support the current policy of the Israeli government and to label as anti-Semitic any event organized by critics of that policy, be they Jews or non-Jews. Just when I became aware of the atrocities that had been perpetrated at the site of my bucolic vacation, and of the covert place being allotted in the present to cope with their memory – a minor incident, characteristic of the German spirit at the present time under the influence of that past, occurred not far away, in Munich, former capital of the Nazi “movement.” The president of the city’s Jewish community, Charlotte Knobloch, demanded that the Catholic organization Caritas cancel a contract to rent one of the community’s halls to a small group of activists called the Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group.

It was Dachau.” (Source: “Birkenau (Auschwitz II): (Memories of an eye-witness) How 72,000 Greek Jews Perished,” published in English by the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture)Ģ. Finally, barbed wire and posts appeared on the horizon. We were again nothing but miserable wrecks, perhaps walking our last mile. But quickly the dogs barking and sounds of Schnell and Aufgehen recalled us to sad reality. We had been isolated from the world of the living for two years and had forgotten these familiar scenes of everyday life. soldiers, the long column of tattered beings started off.

Here is how the author of the book describes the encounter with the residents of the place on the way to the Kaufering VII concentration camp: “Surrounded by police dogs and armed S.S. Germany is repeatedly faking its confrontation with the true political lessons of the past.

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