The Office for the Protection of the Constitution accuses the federal government of being hesitant in dealing with Islamists

2023-12-07 04:57:09

The President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramer, has criticized the federal government’s handling of Islamist groups in Germany. The late ban on Hamas and Samidoun fits in with other cases in which the motto was “We won’t do anything to you, then you won’t do anything to us,” Kramer told the “web.de” portal. “As a result, the Federal Republic became a kind of retreat, a presumed recreational area for these groups, and there was never a real guarantee of peace.”

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In the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) announced a ban on the activities of the terrorist organization Hamas and the Palestinian network Samidoun, which then came three weeks later. “Bans are implemented and not announced. “We can talk about it afterwards,” said Kramer. He could understand the announcement as a political signal. “I don’t understand why these organizations weren’t banned earlier.” In the past, the groups have shaped anti-Semitic protests in Germany and are also on the EU’s terror list.

Kramer sees a threat to the Jewish community in Germany not only from the consequences of the Middle East conflict, but also from the AfD, which is classified by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Thuringia as a right-wing extremist. “The AfD is specifically trying to create a mood with conspiracy fantasies that are nothing more than hidden anti-Semitism,” said Kramer, who was formerly general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

If the AfD came into government responsibility, he himself would emigrate to Israel as a Jew, he told “web.de”. So far he has rejected the idea of ​​going abroad. “It is clear to me and my family that a red line has been crossed when the AfD comes into government at the federal or state level. We’re not taking part in the experiment.”