An army of antisemitism commissioners was supposed to help Germany atone for its past. Critics say it is evidence of a memory effort gone haywire.
An army of antisemitism commissioners was supposed to help Germany atone for its past. Critics say it is evidence of a memory effort gone haywire.
Not really.
The key points of the article are:
All in all the author concludes that these offices are less there to genuinely tackle antisemitism in the German society (of which there is plenty) and more to coin the term in the way that fits the political strategy for how to deal with the German responsibility stemming from the Nazi crimes. They are also diverting from classical antisemitism by ethnic Germans, in favor of supporting anti-immigrant politics with overreaching claims of antisemitism.
With the second to last point mostly explaining the others. As that’s exactly how Israel tries to wield antisemitism and every mention of the holocaust as a political tool.