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Arabs in Berlin hate Jews — who could have guessed?
Original translation Nash Montana, subtitling Vlad Tepes:
Video transcript:
| 0:00 | A small truck that is being steered | |
| 0:03 | into a group of people on purpose. | |
| 0:06 | These are the kinds of catastrophes that no one here can or wants to get used to. | |
| 0:09 | Good evening and welcome to SPIEGEL TV. | |
| 0:12 | Also it appears unacceptable to me, the fact that | |
| 0:15 | there are people here in Germany who are berated as s**t Jews, | |
| 0:18 | or who become victims of racist attacks. | |
| 0:21 | And the attackers aren’t just some brain-fried | |
| 0:24 | Neo-Nazis, but apparently just as brain-fried | |
| 0:27 | Arab anti-Semites. | |
| 0:31 | At some Berlin schools in the meantime the sentiments | |
| 0:34 | among the various cultures have become so chilly, | |
| 0:37 | just like the sentiments between Israel and Palestine, | |
| 0:40 | when the Jewish student becomes the enemy of an entire class. | |
| 0:43 | Anna Sadovnikova, Roman Leber and Klaus Meier-Heuer | |
| 0:46 | spoke to both sides. | |
| 0:49 | The Rückert family celebrates the Sabbath strictly | |
| 0:52 | behind closed doors. They don’t show their | |
| 0:55 | religion any longer in public. | |
| 1:12 | Liam, the youngest of the two brothers, had to learn | |
| 1:15 | that in the midst of Berlin, the word ‘Jew’ has become an expletive. | |
| 1:18 | Seven decades after the end of WW2. | |
| 1:21 | It all started once he switched schools. | |
| 1:24 | In the beginning, when I went to class, | |
| 1:27 | actually on the third day, | |
| 1:30 | our substitute teacher brought up the topic of anti-Semitism, | |
| 1:33 | and then a lot of other students said that | |
| 1:36 | if there was a Jew in the classroom, | |
| 1:39 | they would murder him. | |
| 1:42 | That’s when I realized that I couldn’t tell anyone that I was Jewish. | |
| 1:45 | So I said that I was from Israel, | |
| 1:48 | and one of them called me a s**t Israeli, and | |
| 1:51 | the other one called me a s**t Jew, | |
| 1:54 | because of course he assumed that all Israelis are Jewish. | |
| 1:57 | That’s just how they all think there. | |
| 2:00 | And now they’ll all see that I’m Jewish. | |
| 2:03 | At that moment, a lot changed for Liam. | |
| 2:06 | Israel, the birthplace of his mother, | |
| 2:09 | is the land of the enemy in the eyes of his peers. | |
| 2:12 | The boy who once proudly celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at 13 years old | |
| 2:15 | suddenly became an outsider, one who didn’t | |
| 2:18 | even dare to go outside anymore, in his own city. | |
| 2:21 | He flat-out refused to go to school, he just quit going. | |
| 2:24 | He missed 40 days. He’d ride there, sometimes I drove him myself, | |
| 2:27 | but he would just not go inside, and… | |
| 2:30 | but I didn’t even know about it, | |
| 2:33 | all because he was avoiding his class. | |
| 2:39 | 70% of the students were either Arab | |
| 2:42 | or Polish, | |
| 2:45 | yeah, actually only either Arab or Polish. | |
| 2:48 | Or Turkish, and uh… | |
| 2:51 | the rest were German, or something else… | |
| 2:54 | Arab anti-Semitism in the heart of Berlin? | |
| 2:57 | In search of answers, | |
| 3:00 | we drive to the neighborhood Berlin-Neukölln | |
| 3:03 | to visit the Al-Nur Mosque. | |
| 3:06 | Similar to Jewish tradition, prayers also take place on Friday. | |
| 3:09 | Hello, can we ask you a question? | |
| 3:12 | We’re working on a report about the relationship between | |
| 3:15 | Jewish and Arab people here… —No, about that, we don’t feel like it. | |
| 3:18 | We don’t want to be talked to about that. | |
| 3:21 | It is said that Jewish children are being harassed at schools. | |
| 3:24 | That’s not true, who… where are there even Jewish kids | |
| 3:27 | at normal schools? They’re all hidden in synagogues or wherever! | |
| 3:30 | No, there are normal Jewish kids learning at regular schools. | |
| 3:33 | I’ve never gotten to know one; I’ve never seen any Jewish kids at a normal school. | |
| 3:36 | But there are newspaper articles about how Jewish children are bullied at schools. | |
| 3:39 | We have nothing to do with that. | |
| 3:42 | May we ask you a question? —Yeah, here, no go, you can’t read, for the tenth time, | |
| 3:45 | why have you come back here again?! | |
| 3:48 | The other street is better, here forbidden, do you understand? | |
| 3:51 | Ten times you asked! Why you ask same question here! Go away! Turn off camera! | |
| 3:55 | The Sonnenallee. Almost all stores here are in Arab hands. | |
| 3:59 | The migrant ratio at some schools here is over 80%. | |
| 4:03 | The central council of Jews calls this a no-go area. | |
| 4:06 | Open discussion is not wanted around here, | |
| 4:09 | only covertly. | |
| 4:12 | Jewish children at schools are bullied, | |
| 4:15 | and uh… I have experienced it like that in any case, | |
| 4:18 | that if someone knows that a child is a Jew, | |
| 4:21 | he will be bullied. | |
| 4:24 | But one has to also say that if someone | |
| 4:27 | is not a Jew, and he is a backstabber [traitor] | |
| 4:30 | then we also say “you Jew!” | |
| 4:33 | The Jews… they like the money, | |
| 4:36 | and the power, | |
| 4:39 | and we on the other hand don’t like | |
| 4:42 | the people who like money and power. | |
| 4:45 | But these are prejudices, I mean | |
| 4:48 | not all Jewish people can be rich and powerful. | |
| 4:51 | Those are prejudices, but like I said, what is shown on TV, | |
| 4:54 | and in movies, that is how we soak it up. | |
| 4:57 | At the central relief office for Jews, Marina Chernivsky | |
| 5:00 | is like the archivist for this new anti-Semitism. | |
| 5:03 | The flood of reported incidents | |
| 5:06 | fills entire folders. | |
| 5:09 | For instance, a teacher, Frau A., | |
| 5:12 | reports of new conflicts between a group of students | |
| 5:15 | in the 8th grade, where a female student described | |
| 5:18 | the Shoah, the Holocaust, as correct, and she was harassed | |
| 5:21 | and the school did nothing to stop this. | |
| 5:24 | It’s a climate in which even the word “Jew” | |
| 5:27 | has become a natural insult. | |
| 5:30 | I already knew that this word had become a common cussword, | |
| 5:33 | but I’d never heard it used like that before. To hear this with my own ears | |
| 5:36 | was paralyzing. To imagine that my very own son | |
| 5:39 | could be confronted like this at his school made me feel deeply unsettled. | |
| 5:42 | This is just one experience that we hear very often, | |
| 5:45 | and especially in schools where the word “Jew” frequently | |
| 5:48 | circulates as an insult while remaining unopposed. | |
| 5:51 | There is a general assumption going around; | |
| 5:54 | this isn’t really hitting anyone in particular. | |
| 5:57 | Jewish students aren’t there; therefore it just slides through. | |
| 6:00 | Chernivsky tries to use education to deal with the anger. | |
| 6:03 | but with each conflict in the Middle East it becomes more difficult. | |
| 6:06 | Anti-Semitism has always been a trigger, an outlet, | |
| 6:09 | and it’s going to keep being that, | |
| 6:12 | each escalation in the Middle East, each action, | |
| 6:15 | political… each political… | |
| 6:18 | tension… | |
| 6:21 | Israel and the Middle East, Syria, | |
| 6:24 | wherever, they all contribute | |
| 6:27 | to the incidents here in our schools getting worse and worse. | |
| 6:30 | Sigmount Königsberg, too, can hardly rest anymore. | |
| 6:33 | Actually he is a commissioner against anti-Semitism, but lately he feels more like | |
| 6:37 | a security expert. | |
| 6:40 | I would not recommend to anyone that | |
| 6:43 | they get on the subway in Berlin wearing the star of David. | |
| 6:46 | That goes for the entire city of Berlin. | |
| 6:49 | Or just walk through Berlin wearing the kippah; | |
| 6:52 | I strongly advise not to do that. — Why? | |
| 6:55 | I do not recommend that because the… uh… | |
| 6:58 | one’s physical integrity cannot be guaranteed. | |
| 7:01 | A drive into the Ruhr area. | |
| 7:04 | Since the wave of refugees began, the number of | |
| 7:07 | Arabic migrants has grown very rapidly here. | |
| 7:10 | In the city district Alten-Essen, the owner | |
| 7:13 | of a Lebanese snack stand allows us | |
| 7:16 | to talk with guests and employees. | |
| 7:19 | Mahana Kamil lost relatives in Lebanon | |
| 7:22 | due to Israeli air strikes. Since then, the Jews are the enemy. | |
| 7:25 | Those in Israel anyway. He’s got nothing against Jews in Germany. | |
| 7:28 | May we show you this video, | |
| 7:31 | this happened a few months ago in Stuttgart, at a demonstration. | |
| 7:34 | I think that’s good, yes, all Arabs must be like that. | |
| 7:37 | But especially here in Germany, we have | |
| 7:40 | a special kind of responsibility towards our | |
| 7:43 | fellow Jewish citizens, to let something like this happen… | |
| 7:46 | Look, look at… Hitler, what did he do Jews, | |
| 7:49 | do you know that, are you German? | |
| 7:52 | Do you think that was good? | |
| 7:55 | I don’t find that good, but with such people you just have to do like that. | |
| 7:58 | Hitler has said, I let a few people, Jews, live, and … | |
| 8:01 | then they know why I, these people, | |
| 8:04 | why I “fired” them, | |
| 8:07 | why I have killed them. | |
| 8:10 | And he was right, I believe. | |
| 8:13 | These people want to have everything, all of them, | |
| 8:16 | they want everything, all things. | |
| 8:19 | They leave nothing for other people. —The Jews? —Jews, exactly! | |
| 8:22 | And yes, that is right. It is correct. | |
| 8:25 | Our Imam [imam name in Arabic] has said | |
| 8:28 | Israel is a big mistake. | |
| 8:31 | It must — it’s like a cancer, and when you don’t make cancer go away, | |
| 8:34 | then it stays in your head and in your body and so on. | |
| 8:37 | Yeah, and so that is. | |
| 8:40 | Not everybody thinks like that, with some the resentment against the Jews sounds | |
| 8:43 | almost diplomatic. Almost. When they say, the Jews, they’re attacked in school | |
| 8:47 | or by the kids or whatever, that is right, but what do Jews do | |
| 8:50 | with all those other people, the Palestinians, | |
| 8:53 | and so on, that is their kids | |
| 8:56 | who die every day routinely. | |
| 8:59 | Who gives them the right? No one. | |
| 9:02 | Is that justice? That is not justice either. | |
| 9:05 | I too am against when a person attacks a Jew or a child, | |
| 9:08 | or whatever. I am not in agreement with that, either. | |
| 9:11 | They are humans, too. | |
| 9:14 | They believe differently, they have a different religion, | |
| 9:17 | that is true, but… | |
| 9:20 | what should I say; that is normal, right? | |
| 9:24 | What is normal for some, is unbearable for the Rückert family. | |
| 9:27 | The fact that their religion could put them in danger, | |
| 9:30 | is something they’d never even thought possible. | |
| 9:34 | We are afraid, of course. Things come up in me — | |
| 9:37 | things come up in me, | |
| 9:40 | like back in the times of my parents… | |
| 9:43 | you hear such things…, | |
| 9:46 | s**t Jew, filthy Jew. We are in the year 2018; | |
| 9:49 | something like that shouldn’t even be happening anymore. | |
| 9:52 | Liam wants to emigrate to Israel now. | |
| 9:55 | There, he wants to go to a boarding school. | |
| 9:58 | As far as Berlin is concerned, he doesn’t want to live here anymore. |
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