…“We read the outcome of the foreign affairs working group of the coalition negotiations with the greatest conceivable dismay,” writes Elio Adler of the German-Jewish WerteInitiative. “The wording chosen not only represents a considerable tightening compared with the previous coalition agreement, it even contradicts the resolution on antisemitism that we welcomed so warmly only recently!”…
“Israel’s right to exist is indeed safeguarded, but without the addition ‘as a Jewish state’, which matters so much to us as Jews. This annuls the very core of the bond between Jews and Israel. The antisemitism motion in question still contained it.”….
Elio Adler: “This one-sided partisanship against Israel and in favour of UNRWA – which many experts regard not as part of the solution but as part of the problem – is devastating. It leads not to greater peace but to greater conflict, because it strengthens the narrative of Israeli and Palestinian hardliners.”..
