The German Association Against Cruelty to Animals, which opposes the legalization of Jewish ritual slaughter in West Germany, filed a formal complaint today against charges it was anti-Semitic. The association contended that opposition to ritual slaughter had no connection with anti-Semitism. The complaint was filed against “persons unknown.”
The filing followed a meeting of the association at which a member called out “they ought to go back where they came from” during the discussion on schechita. He was applauded by many other members.
A bill to revise Nazi legislation, which banned ritual slaughter, is being drafted in the West German Bundestag, lower House of Parliament, where all three party factions have agreed to legalize ritual slaughter. The West German Federal court previously had declared the Nazi ban unconstitutional as a violation of the free exercise of religion.
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