BERLIN,
November 30 (IslamOnline.net) - The German parliament (Bundestag) will
debate and vote Tuesday, December 2, on a new draft law penalizing
anti-Semitism in the country, reported a leading German newspaper on
Sunday, November 30.
The
preamble of the proposed legislation vocalizes concern over spiraling
anti-Jews activities in different sectors of the society after they had
been confined to small far-right groups, reported the Frankfurter
Allgemeinen Zeitung.
According
to the paper, the articles of the new bill, drafted by lawmakers from
the various political parties represented in the legislature, will
condemn anti-Semitism and penalize all its forms - ideas, statements or
activities.
A
specific article of the law will implicitly carry the possibility of
politically isolating any politician indicted of anti-Semitic charges,
said the newspaper.
It
states that politicians who attempt to create a new framework for
propagating Nazism, cast doubts on the crimes perpetrated by Nazis
against Jews or place the society and Jews at a clash course have no
place inside the society.
The
bill also exhorts all German lawmakers to exert their utmost efforts and
shoulder their responsibilities in persistently reminding the German
people of the so-called Holocausts.
The
parliamentarians are also asked to work tirelessly to normalize the
situation of Jews in Germany by opposing water-tight and
around-the-clock security procedures around Jews facilities in the
country.
Daim
Agueler, a legislator of a Turkish origin and one of the bill drafters,
called on the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to conduct a
comprehensive survey of anti-Semitism across Europe, not only Germany.
Agueler,
a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) leadership council, stressed
that the findings of the study must be published in full.
Germany
became the second European country, after France, to seek a legislation
penalizing anti-Semitism.
