Opinion  Noah Klieger
13 million declared anti-Semites in Germany
Noah Klieger
Published: 14.06.18, 15:46
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1. How many in France, GB, Spain, Poland...the list is long
(06.14.18)
2. You know what: thats their prerogative!Just don’t live there
(06.14.18)
3. Semitism is Racism. Policy, predisposition favorable to Jews
Steve Benassi ,   Duluth, MN USA   (06.14.18)
Definition of Semitism
1 a : Semitic character or qualities
b : a characteristic feature of a Semitic language occurring in another language
2 : policy or predisposition favorable to Jews

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Semitism
4. 2 points
Arnie ,   Montreal   (06.14.18)
First point. The report mentions Russian Jews that arrived after the war. lol and behold those Jews adopted German society and have aided Germany to become an economic powerhouse.
Second point. The Moslem migrants arrived. They have not blended into German society and they are probably the ones that are in the anti-Jewish lead.
5. Germans deny Jewish private rights and Israel legal rights
(06.14.18)
same nation tried to cover up mass sexual harassment of their women by illegal immigrants.

We wouldnt know half of what happens if it wasnt for the internet and social media.

6. Antisemites in Germany...who would have guessed?
CAPTAIN SARCASTIC ,   SAFED CYNIC HOUSE   (06.14.18)
7. YOU DON'T SAY ?
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS ,   SAFED OBVIOUS   (06.14.18)
8. IT AINT ROCKET SCIENCE .
ALBERTO EINSTEIN ,   SAFED GENIUS   (06.14.18)
9. GOOD NEWS ! As 18,576,000 are of immigrant descent, it means
Andre ,   Clichy   (06.14.18)
GOOD NEWS ! As 18,576,000 of the German population are of immigrant descent, it means that nearly 4.5 million muslims don't hate the Jews ! WOW ! That is progress to be celebrated !...
10. 'Only 13 million 'declared Jewhaters.
tiki ,   belgium   (06.15.18)
So, than there is no problem.

Looks to me that Dr. Josef Schuster should go back in time when Jews didn't want to see the signs either and kept believing that the cultural & intellectual Jew hating Germans would never become vicious Jew killing Germans.
11. Jews Need To Get Out Of Germany While There Is Still Time
Reuven   (06.15.18)
Jews need to come home to Israel,.
12. People don't hate Jews,,,
Julius ,   Baltimore, USA   (06.15.18)
because they are Jews, they hate because they are not,,, not Jews.
13. BS !!!!! How many Germans HATE Israel ????
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (06.15.18)
THAT is the question !!!!!!!!!!! Stop living in a fantasy world !!!!!!!!!
14. Proof.
Brad ,   USA   (06.15.18)
Proof that importation of Muslims is importation of anti-semirism.
15. Which study?
nwwt ,   Sc   (06.15.18)
Spent half an hour on Google figuring out just which study Klieger refers to and can't find anything applicable whatsoever. Only ADL Global100 (in Germany as 600 people phone survey from 2015, not "the population declared") gave a 16% figure for "antisemitic attitude in general" after weighing up the actual questions. But no mention it about that 70% figure whatsoever, also its website counts 11 million.

Also, Klieger makes two mistakes / omissions:

* The Echo found "found no fault in their selection" because the price was patently inane by design, solely based on sales numbers, chart positions, and buying the candidacy (€50k). Content didn't matter.

* The cartoonist was fired independently of of an "uproar": He was already on the chief editor's hit list, and let go after clashing with him verbally in multiple arguments. (Th editor also admitted to personal failure in preventing publication, saying he was out of office for a longer time and his vice failed to even look at the cartoon that day, just rubber-stamping it.)
16. How many Germans are living in Jewish homes?
David ,   Hartford USA   (06.16.18)
How many Germans are the 'owners' of Jewish businesses?
How many German's are the 'owners' of Jewish silverware and artworks?

Yes, I know why so many Germans still hate Jews. They're worried that the biggest theft in world history, even though it's seventy years old, will come back and catch them in the fraud that they're living.

Time for a really good look at all German property records- especially records between 1933 and 1945, and see who 'bought' all those Jewish properties.... The biggest theft in world history is still going on, and the perpetrators are just hoping that everyone will simply forget about it.

"Grandpa, before you, the entire family were just farmers. How did you ever manage to buy a 50 unit apartment house, especially during the war?"

Yeah, the Germans have a lot of questions they don't want asked.
17. JUST 13%
LARRY LISS ,   US ARMY 24 YEARS   (06.16.18)
THAT FIGURE DOUBLES IN THE US AND CANADA AUSTRILIA E EUROPE WHATS THE NEWS HERE AMERICAN JEW US ARMY RETIRED
18. Why don't they like Jews.
Norman E. Fox   (06.17.18)
I would be interested knowing the reasons they would cite for not liking Jews. That would give us something to work with if we wanted to improve things.
19. and... I don't like Germans either. So what?
Ex Oleh Chadash ,   Brazil   (06.17.18)
I will never visit that country.
When I go shopping, If I see a Nivea bar of soap, it makes me remember the Holocaust (Beiersdorf - all Germans industries were involved). If I buy an aspirine, it makes me remember the Holocaust too (they were also involved). The list is long: Volkswagen, Manesmann, usw.
I don't like Germans.
20. Only 13 million.?? Im sure thats a wild UNDERESTIMATE,.LOL
Alan ,   SA   (06.17.18)
21. Non-existent sources? (1/2)
nwwt ,   Sc   (06.18.18)
I would like to renew my request for Ynetnews to clarify which "recent survey" this opinion piece references.

In addition: How was the 13 million figure determined? One can't just multiply population size by a survey's percentage, for the reason alone (see below) that there are some ten million in Germany who haven't reached the age of 14.

To reiterate what I wrote in the past comment:
* Only the ADL Global100 from 2015 (so not "recent") seems to mention a 16% figure,
* assuming it's the one Klieger refers to, it (nor any other survey, apparently) makes no mention of the 70% figure,

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22. We live in a shame culture but Jews refuse to shame EU hatre
(06.18.18)
23. Who is more racist, Germans or Israelis?
Amichai ,   Anatot   (06.19.18)
Mr. Klieger knows it all better than the German Jews... So 13 % ares racists - in Israel it's about 50 %, where would you prefer to live? So 70 % are strongly against the oppression of Palestinians by Israel - in Israel it's only about 50 %...
Btw, I'm a German Jew who choose to live in Israel, and I see much more racism here than there.
24. Non-existent sources? (2/2)
nwwt ,   Sc   (06.19.18)
2/2

* it wasn't "the population declared they didn’t like Jews" but the ADL giving the figure after weighing up previous answers of 600 participants,
* its very own website provides a total figure of 11 million instead (since they're know to base it on adult population).
Also notice how meaningful this naive total figure is, given how wildly it differs from the one for Global100 2014.

Actually, you'd think that mentioning sources (here a simple name) and fact checking is covered by journalistic / editorial principle even for opinion pieces, if only for being better than risking another false figure becoming part of folk-wisdom. Never mind that this topic is rather delicate.

On top of this, there are a number of actually recent and genuine surveys with worrying enough results on the topic, such as the the most recent report by the independent expert group for parliament from April 2017. Why publish something like this piece instead?

(Even the Schuster interview with Mashiach seems unavailable. Couldn't find it in any of the three languages, on Yedioth sites or otherwise, but frankly at some point I gave up.)
25. Anti-semitsm
Sjoerd van der Velde ,   Hoorn Holland   (10.13.18)
I am convinced that a certain category in Germany can be called anti-semitic and are a hate-group, committing hate-crime, just as in several other countries. The bad and apartheid ideology and fake-religion "islam" is already practicing that since the 6th century, which began in Mecca and Medina on the Arabian peninsula. For example look at the quoran and sharia about anti-semitism, xenophobia and hate-crime.
26. @Amichai, Anatot
Anonymous ,   Cologne   (10.27.18)
Good point, Amichai. I’m not jewish (and not muslim) and after living in Israel for 8 years I have returned back to Germany. And I can only confirm what Amichai said: the jewish israeli society is among the most racist I have ever encountered. Besides that, Noah Klieger has his very own agenda, and his populist click-bait articles are typical for unserious yellow press.
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