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2018-10-09 Europe
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German Social Democrat Politician Who Said Israel Executes Palestinians Urged To Resign
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[Jpost] German politicians on Monday accused Bremen’s Senator of the Interior Ulrich Mäurer of antisemitism and urged him to resign after he said Israel executes Palestinians on the Gaza-Israel border.
“When I see that the Israeli Army is simply executing dozens of Palestinians at the border fence, I don’t understand that either. And I can understand all those who use this opportunity to express their opinions very clearly,” said Mäurer in the Bremen State Legislature on September 27. The 67-year-old politician said he would demonstrate for the Palestinians in light of Israel’s actions.
The vice president of the Christian Democratic Union Party in the Bundestag, Gitta Connemann, told Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper that Mäurer’s doubling-down on his anti-Israel comment “makes Jew-hatred respectable.” Connemann is also vice president of the German-Israel Friendship Society.
After Mäurer faced intense criticism on social media and from politicians, he told the Bremen paper Weser-Kurier, “In view of the deaths on the border, you have to understand when it comes to demonstrations and protests in response.”
Commentators in Germany noted that is unclear why a politician responsible for interior affairs expressed his view on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Bremen CDU deputy, Elisabeth Motschmann, told Bild, “We are fighting antisemitism in our country and surprisingly an interior senator expresses himself antisemitically.”
The vice president of the Free Democratic Party in the Bundestag, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, told the newspaper that Mäurer’s remarks were “nonsense” and that he should “apologize in a letter to Israel’s ambassador.” Lambsdorff also urged Mäurer to go to southern Israel to see the security situation on the border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip 
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