German Neo-Nazis Applaud Boycott
Neo-Nazi groups in Germany lauded Jena, Germany's Mayor, Albrecht Schröter, for his town's boycott of Israeli products, reports The Jerusalem Post:
The NPD branch in the state of Thuringia, where Jena is located, quickly issued accolades on Monday to Schröter on its website. The neo-Nazis wrote that he is “courageous” for his anti-Israel conduct and noted “as nationalists who have to deal every day with these Jewish/left-liberal defamation tactics, we think of Goethe’s sorcerer’s apprentice, who couldn’t get rid of the spirits he called.”
...Thuringia and the city of Jena are hotbeds of neo-Nazi activity. Kevin Zdiara, the deputy chairman of the German-Israel friendship society (DIG) in Thuringia’s capital Erfurt, told the Post that in Jena “there is a Nazi problem,” that the terrorists of the national socialist underground came from Jena and that Nazis continue to meet at the property of the “Brown House,” a local center for the far-right.
Supporters of the far-right NPD political party gather for a rally on the eastern city outskirts on May Day in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images)
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