Abraham Lehrer criticizes the lack of solidarity with Jews after state elections

After the elections in Berlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony, Abraham Lehrer, chairman of the Cologne synagogue community and vice president of the Central Council of Jews, misses solidarity with Jews in Germany. “Anti-Semitism has become so normal that it no longer makes people take to the streets,” said Lehrer in an interview with the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” (Friday edition).

Given the strong results of the AfD and the Left in Berlin, what shocked him most was "that the famous middle of society still hasn't understood the concerns and fears that concern the Jewish community in Germany."

“I don’t know who to be more afraid of.”

Hardly anyone expressed solidarity openly, said Lehrer. “What I think is worst is that everyone ducks away.” It affects him when a “Hamas representative is present” at the victory celebration of the Berlin Left, and it affects him when the AfD is successful in an election, “represents historical revisionist positions” and wants to “abolish the culture of remembrance”. “I don’t know who to be more afraid of,” Lehrer told the newspaper.

There are also individual families in his community in Cologne who have therefore decided to leave Germany. They are not alone in their thoughts: Although there is no wave of emigration like in France, there are many in the Jewish community “who are thinking about Plan B,” said Lehrer.