Criticism of SPD plans for left-wing politician because of anti-Semitism problem

The state SPD wants to appoint a left-wing politician to office who has a serious anti-Semitism problem in her party. This is not just how the chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, sees it. Anti-Jewish activists were already at the Left's election party. The leader of an organization that is internationally viewed as a supporter of Hamas terrorism was seen.

This is all happening at a time when many Jewish citizens in Berlin are being advised not to enter some parts of the city if they are wearing a yarmulke or have a Star of David hanging around their neck. In Neukölln they may be playing with their lives.

That's why it's all the more incomprehensible that the SPD federal leadership was only able to bring itself to lukewarm formulations. There is trivial talk of anti-Semitic slogans where a clear rejection would be necessary. The co-chairs Lars Klingbeil and Bärbel Bas call on the Left to stop such incidents.