(JNS) Germany’s coalition parties and the main opposition faction agreed on Saturday to pass a Bundestag resolution on antisemitism that for the first time will see the legislature name Muslim immigration as a driver of the problem.
The draft resolution, which will be nonbinding, also calls to end pubic funding for entities that engage in antisemitism or seek to boycott Israel. It also reaffirms Germany’s support for Israel.
Gady Gronich, a Jewish community executive based in Munich, welcomed the draft resolution. “I hope it leads to positive developments on the ground vis-à-vis the religious freedom and security of the Jewish community in Germany, which is facing major challenges right now,” Gronich told JNS. He is CEO of the Conference of European Rabbis and chief of staff for its president Pinchas [Goldschmidt].
