German FM: Refugees who come must reject anti-Semitism
BERLIN - Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Tuesday that refugees who find shelter in his country must reject anti-Semitism.
Steinmeier noted that whoever comes to Germany has to accept that "anti-Semitism is against our constitution, against our civilization -- against everything we believe in and everything we have learned."
Germany has been debating how to integrate more than 1 million asylum-seekers who arrived last year, most of them Muslims from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The country has also seen a recent rise in nationalism, partly driven by groups who dispute Germany's sole responsibility for the historical crimes of the Nazis.
Steinmeier told a conference on anti-Semitism in Berlin that "there is and can be no place for anti-Semitism in our understanding of a free, democratic and tolerant Germany."
