Deutschlalaland: Germany Wants to Rewrite its Holocaust History

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""Frankly, we have imported antisemitism with the big numbers of migrants we have within the last 10 years." German Chancellor Friedrich Merz blamed the rise in antisemitism on migrants, calling it a "terrible challenge" for the country."

1. If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better.

2. The overwhelming majority of antisemitic attacks on German soil are from the Far Right, but these are rendered illegible because it does not fit with the White supremacy that continues to define a lot of German politics.

3. Germany is invested in the notion that because they are responsible for the…