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HatDeutschland A new anti-Semitism problem? Especially among Muslims? At least apparently in recent weeks dieverbalen and physical attacks on Jews have increased. Especially in schools with many Muslim pupils, hostility to Jews was a growing problem, term “Jew” became a common schoolyard abuse. The most recent example is bullying of a Jewish girl at a primary school in Berlin-Tempelhof, which was announced at end of March.
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In cultural milieu, too, re is a growing concern for a new anti-Semitic. Last week, DeutschrapperKollegah and his German-Moroccan comrade Farid Bang were awarded Music Award Echo, although texts of two AntizionistischeVerschwörungsorien and tasteful lines of text like “MeinKörper is more defined than of Auschwitz occupants.
The political scientist and anti-Semitism expert David Ranan is in his much-debated book of Muslim antisemitism. A danger to social peace in Germany? The question of wher re really is a new Jew-hatred, which is transported above all by Muslims living here. His experimental arrangement sounds promising: Ranan, himself a Jew, has conducted more than 70 interviews with German Muslims in hope of getting information about DerenEinstellung to Jews, Israel and subject of antisemitism. The respondents have all grown up in this country and have a high level of education: y have a Abitur, are currently studying or have an academic degree.
The results are not reassuring
Dochschon introductory chapters question extent to which Umfragenund interviews can provide reliable results in perspectives anti-Semitism. What is anti-Semitism, Woer begins and stops, how it is distinguished from antizionism, anti-Judaism, aggressive, unconstitutional Israelkritikoder harmless, childlike-airy commonplaces, is a question of definition, writes Ranan. Thus, if studies claimed that “74Prozent of population in Middle East and North Africa countries Teiltenantisemitische Attitudes” – a study of Institutefor Jewish Policy Research from May 2015 cited by Ranan – it was necessary to clarify Anti-Semitism-term se were based on and what y meant for coexistence between Jews, Muslims and Christians. The author refore pleads for a healthy skepticism towards quantitative analyses of anti-Semitism and media reports that rely on such professions.
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But what about his EigenenUntersuchung? Are 70 qualitative interviews with Muslims more enlightening than standardized survey of a few thousand? Ranan leaves this methodical question almost 200 pages long unanswered. Instead, he simply documents what interviewees have told him. The Ergebnissesind was not reassuring: many of his young, Gutgebildeten interlocutors assumed that Jews had too much influence in financial sector; That y sichgegenseitig supported, roped parties, and had too much power over-sized corporations and banks; That y ruled world politics and organized mselves into secret associations; That one should criticize you and that y had more (and too much) protection in Germany than or minorities. It is well-known sedimentation of clichés about Jews, which can also be found in texts by rappers like Kollegah (who, however, as son of a Canadian and a German – unlike his partner Farid Bang – would not have fallen into survey group.)
European vs. Muslim antisemitism
DieZitate are undoubtedly depressing. But Ranan tries to defuse its anti-Jewish content by making a definitional difference between European antisemitism and seinenPhantasmen of a Jewish supremacy and “factually even comprehensible feeling of many Muslims, Besondersarabischer that only an overwhelming power could allow kleinenIsrael to incorporate with such success Palestine “.
Ranan makes this distinction without explaining it in detail. If one thinks SeinenGedanken to end, it would be concluded that anti-Semitism glycine evaluation of socialization and circumstances of Sprechersabhängen. So it would be something qualitatively different if a Muslim, who grew up in Palestine, had anti-Semitic Klischeesreproduziert than if Christian socialized rapper Kollegah, born in Hesse, Friedberg, does this. While one speaks of a real injustice experience, or draws from anti-Semitic idioms that cannot be explained rationally and unmittelbarkontextuellly.
