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April 18, 2022

How Germany’s Anti-Semitism Commissioners Encourage Anti-Semitism

Too interested in looking for “scientific connections” between anti-Semitism and decarbonization.

Michael Blume—the official tasked by the German state of Baden-Württemberg with combating anti-Semitism—happens to be a fierce critic of Israel, who has compared Jews that irk him to Adolf Eichmann and portrayed himself as a victim of Jewish anti-Muslim bigotry. To Malca Goldstein-Wolf, Blume is emblematic of a larger problem with the anti-Semitism commissioners employed by each of the German states, as well as by the federal government:

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