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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrives for a cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on June 11, 2025. Merz recently stirred controversy by blaming migrants for antisemitism in Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The politics of blame: Accusing immigrants won’t solve Germany’s antisemitism problem

Oliver Schmidtke, University of Victoria

Framing antisemitism primarily as an imported problem risks strengthening forces that actively seek to undermine and ignore Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past.

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