German bill would allow expulsion of migrants who espouse anti-Semitism
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany’s mainstream conservative parties are proposing legislation that would allow states to expel foreigners who make anti-Semitic statements, including the refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist.
The party of Chancellor Angela Merkel — the Christian Democratic Union — and its sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, have proposed legislation that they say would take such hate crimes “much more seriously,” according to the German newspaper Die Welt.
Party leaders reportedly hope that the legislation will be passed before International Holocaust Memorial Day, Jan. 27, which recalls the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp by Red Army troops in 1945.
Christian Democratic legislator Stephan Harbarth told Die Welt that the move was intended to crack down on anti-Semitism among “migrants with Arab background and from African countries.” While education and other preventive work are important, he said, the state must be able to wield the ultimate threat of deportation
“Anyone who incites anti-Semitic hate and rejects Jewish life in Germany cannot stay in our country,” Harbarth said.
https://www.jta.org/2018/01/08/news-opinion/world/german-bill-would-allow-expulsion-of-migrants-who-espouse-anti-semitism
