German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI)
BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister said refugees who find shelter in his country must reject anti-Semitism.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Tuesday that whoever comes to Germany has to accept that “anti-Semitism is against our constitution, against our civilization — against everything we believe in and everything we have learned.”
Germany has been debating how to integrate more than 1 million asylum-seekers who arrived last year, most of them Muslims from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The country has also seen a recent rise in nationalism, partly driven by groups who dispute Germany’s sole responsibility for the historical crimes of the Nazis.
Migrants queue for free food at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni on March 15, 2016, where thousands of refugees and migrants are stranded by the Balkan border blockade.(AFP / DANIEL MIHAILESCU)
Steinmeier told a conference on anti-Semitism in Berlin that “there is and can be no place for anti-Semitism in our understanding of a free, democratic and tolerant Germany.”
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