Germany Can’t Admit Where Anti-Semitism Comes from
Defining left-wing and Islamist hatred down.
September 15, 2017
Defining left-wing and Islamist hatred down.
According to a report recently released by Germany’s Ministry of the Interior, 92 percent of the anti-Semitic incidents in the country since January were the work of right-wing extremists. German authorities came to this conclusion because, by government fiat, any anti-Semitic crime is categorized as a “politically motivated right-wing extremist crime.” Evelyn Gordon explains why this approach is not only misleading but dangerous:
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