Commission adopts strategy on combating anti-Semitism
7.10.2021
Question for written answer E-004580/2021
to the Commission
Rule 138
Bernhard Zimniok (ID)
On 5 October 2021, the Commission presented a strategy on combating anti-Semitism. According to a survey quoted in the press release, 38% of Jews in the EU have considered emigrating because they feel under threat. In Germany, police crime statistics from 2018 attributed the majority of cases (253 out of 324) to right-wing extremists. However, a survey among victims of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany revealed that 62% of verbal attacks and 81% of cases of physical assault were in fact carried out by Muslim offenders[1]. Criticism is therefore being levelled at the police, which is acting under instruction from the German Ministry of the Interior, for systematically pinning all anti-Semitic acts on right-wing extremists[2], and even going so far as to classify a Hitler salute given by an Afghan as a right-wing offence[3].
- 1.Why does the strategy fail to mention who is behind such acts?
- 2.How will the Commission factor in the reality that most anti-Semitic attacks are carried out by Muslims?
- 3.Will it rethink its migration policy to block rather than facilitate migration to the EU from Muslim countries where anti-Semitic attitudes are prevalent[4], in order to protect the lives of Jews in the EU?
- [1] https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/kritik-an-polizeistatistik/
- [2] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/antisemitismus-statistik-verzerrtes-bild-der-wirklichkeit-17327198.html?GEPC=s3
- [3] https://twitter.com/polizeimuenchen/status/1051743833355165696?lang=de
- [4] https://global100.adl.org/map/meast