How the German Right came to support Israel

Published March 25, 2019 1:53pm ET



In the face of growing anti-Semitism in the West, we should pay attention to a recent vote in the German parliament.

On March 14, the Free Democrats, a mildly economic-libertarian party in the Bundestag, submitted a resolution that called out the anti-Israel bias of United Nations institutions and urged the German government to oppose this ongoing practice. It highlighted the one-sidedness within the U.N. in recent years — for example, that the U.N. General Assembly passed 26 resolutions criticizing specific states in 2018, and 21 times these resolutions were aimed against Israel.

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