Berlin: Anti -Semitism in Neukölln - Why is SPD boss Raed Saleh silent?

Berlin - Ten days ago, death swaddons of the Palestinian "Hamas" remembered in Israel. They murdered 1400 people, injured 3500 and took 126 hostages.

The attack has been celebrated on the streets of Neukölln for ten days. Sympathians of the terrorist group "Hamas", which wants to destroy the state of Israel, indicate the tone and fuel the hatred of Jews.

The Jewish Berliners have been in fear since then, Jewish schools have remained empty on Friday. Houses in which Jews live were marked by unknown people with the Davidstern, as the National Socialists did.

The police have been interfering and dissolving forbidden meetings for ten days, the state security is alerted, politicians from all stripes are horrified and speak up. Only one silence so far, it is the Berlin SPD leader and parliamentary group leader Raed Saleh. [ www.bild.de ] For nine days, Saleh had the opportunity to show the anti -Semitic pack on the streets of Neukölln the red card. But he didn't do that, he was nowhere to be seen. And even now it is not clear how and who he wants to show the red card. He does not comment on this again.

Raed Saleh is an experienced and successful politician who has been running the SPD parliamentary group in the House of Representatives for 12 years. He is the mighty man behind the coalitions with the green and left and now with the CDU.

Saleh did not fall on the mouth. He likes to comment on a lot, writes guest posts in the media and interferes very committed to the debates, especially when it comes to racism or "the fight against right".

Saleh is not an anti -Semite, on the contrary, he is committed, for example, to reconstruction the destroyed synagogue on the Fraenkelufer in Kreuzberg. So why does he silence when anti -Semitism grows again when Jews feel insecure in Berlin again?

we can only speculate about this, because Saleh does not provide any information itself. It is obvious that he fears the population with Arab origin, to which he belongs.

For the Arab immigrants and their descendants, the aversion to or even hatred of Israel is a matter of course, a band that holds them together. Saleh surrendered in front of this force and prefers to hold his mouth. That's how it could be.

It is also possible that the SPD leader has a completely different view of Israel than the official German politics. It was 14 years ago. Hamas opened the rocket war against Israel in 2007. The Israeli Air Force tried to destroy the launch ramps.

Saleh turned against Israeli defense, but not against Hamas' fatal attacks. In an interview with the daily newspaper "Taz" he said on January 4, 2009: "The protest must stay on the street. Only in this way can the pressure on Israel grow."

may have changed his view of things. Unfortunately, that remains unclear.

It is clear, however, that the head of the SPD, which rules in the German capital, has to express itself significantly if Jews in Berlin are in danger again, which should never actually happen again.