German left-wing radicals say Jews have ‘too much influence’

[Behind the Aegis]

THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!

BERLIN – A study released last week in Berlin showed widespread anti-Semitism among left-wing Germans.

According to the academic survey conducted by the Free University of Berlin, 34 percent of the respondents defined as leftist extremists said Jews have “too much influence” in Germany, and that 16% of Germans who were classified as radical left-wing harbored anti-Semitic views.

The study showed 34% of leftwing extremists affirmed the anti-Semitic attitude that Jews are “money-grabbing,” while of those termed radical leftists, 13% said Jews are consumed with money.

Extensive studies on left-wing anti-Semitism are rare in Europe.

The Research Association on the SED [Socialist Unity Party] State at the Free University, which conducted the study, devotes research to the former East German communist state and its now-defunct controlling party SED. The association seeks ”to gain more insight into the outer and inner conditions that made possible the 40 years of a second German dictatorship in the 20th century,” according to its website.

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Some things never change...or change, then quickly change back.

[EllieBC]

1. Why are the studies rare?

So to focus on that part, but why are they rarely done? Is it assumes that anyone not on the right is bucket of love and tolerance?

[MosheFeingold]

2. The "right" are much more open

So, they start there.

But one should never forget that Hitler seized what was basically a benign socialist/workers' sentiment/party and made it his own, by combining socialism with nationalism (hence "National Socialist&quot

Antisemitism cuts across the political spectrum in America, as well. I read a fair number of the Wiki DNC documents, and there is a lot of stuff in there that would get a poster here banned. (I don't doubt Drumf has his share, too, but we don't have those to look at.)

I've always liked the idea of decentralized socialism, simply because the haters always rise to the top, eventually, from the left or the right.

I'd like to keep the government reasonably weak, or at least difficult to change, for this reason.