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Migrant areas have a higher crime rate. If you're right wing you blame it on skin colour or culture. If you're left wing you blame it on socioeconomic factors. Take your pick. The fact remains.
I'm sure right wing media love to sell the idea of "bad migrants". But again, there is a problem in areas with a high migrant population that hasn't been discussed until very recently. The very idea of pointing out that certain groups are over-represented when it comes to certain crimes was seen as racist not too long ago. How can you address a problem you won't even acknowledge exists?
Obviously horrifying, but there's a reason why gay people leave the middle east and come to the west. We're far from perfect, but orders of magnitude better than others. Compare the number of people in Germany and Syria/Turkey/Palestine (or pretty much any country in ME) who want to make homosexuality/trans illegal and then tell me that it's Germany that's the problem.
Do you really think women from Islamic cultures have it worse in the west? I don't agree with burka-bans or that sort of nonsense, except maybe for minors, but I have a hard time believing that the west is worse for women than Islamic countries in the middle east or northern africa are.
It is therefore impossible for a naive media consumer in Germany to ever see a Jew vehemently defending the Palestinians. This is how anti-Semitism is promoted.
Hating and or disagreeing with the Israeli government(s) isn't antisemitism, and I can think of several people with a justified hate for it. That's not the same as hating jews. There was a study done recently that pointed out that the biggest risk factor for antisemitism is ethnicity.
I do agree that the Israeli government would like to label any criticism against them as antisemitism, which is just silly.
Ad hominem. How charming.