(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Anti-Semitism as an issue in the present election campaign in Germany was decried by the ‘Abwehr Blaetter’, the organ of the Union for Combatting Anti-Semitism, a non-Jewish body, which published a special election issue to expose the anti-Semitic campaign of falsehoods.
The newspaper warns the German electorate against the attempts of the German anti-Semites to exploit racial hatred in the campaign and to make the Jews in Germany the scape-goats of their own mistakes.
"It is unfair to blame the Jews because they are engaged in specific occupations due to the restrictions of Ghetto conditions which have been imposed upon them by the Gentiles and were only recently abolished. The attacks upon the Old Testament have been refuted by leading Christian theologians," the paper declares.
"The anti-Semites ignore the achievements of the Jews in German culture and business. They forget the 12,000 Jewish heroes who fell during the World War. Hatred, pogroms, desecration of synagogues and cemeteries are the weapons of anti-Semitism which cannot help Germany but will only cause unrest and disorder, harming the nation," the paper states.
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