In Germany, anti-Semitic hate mail doesn’t come from far-right

[MikeWB]

Everything's anti-Semitism in the eyes of these evil bastards.

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.576189

text: http://www.scribd.com/doc/209412012/Dubow-Digest-Germany-Edition-February-27-2014

Over months, Prof. Monika Schwarz-Friesel read 14,000 letters, emails and faxes sent to the Israeli embassy in Berlin and the Central Council of Jews in Germany. She was looking for an answer to a question that had preoccupied her for some time: What does anti-Semitism look like in Germany at the start of the 21st century?

[yankeedoodle]

Assuming - again, ASSUMING - this report is accurate, the quotes below show what might be signs of hope.

More than 60 percent comes from educated Germans, with only 3 percent coming from ultranationalists.

What they discovered is that more than 60 percent of the letters were sent by educated Germans, including university professors. The proportion sent by right-wing extremists was negligible  –  about 3 percent.

At first, we thought that most of the letters would be sent by right-wing extremists, Schwarz-Friesel said. ―But I was very surprised to discover that they were actually sent by people from the social mainstream  –  professors, Ph.Ds, lawyers, priests, university and high- school students.‖

She was also surprised to discover that most of the letter writers had no qualms about giving their names, addresses and titles. ―Twenty or 30 years ago, that wouldn't have happened,‖ she said. Still another surprise was the fact that there is no significant difference between the extreme right's anti - Semitism and that of the educated mainstream.   ―The difference is only in the style and the rhetoric, but the ideas are the same.