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Die Linke Leaders Distance Party From Youth Wing’s Anti-Israel Resolution After Congress Turmoil

Co-chairs Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken held crisis talks to initiate a full investigation, reasserting zero tolerance for antisemitism.

Overview

  • The federal leadership said the youth resolution is incompatible with Die Linke’s positions and promised a thorough review of the incidents at the Linksjugend Bundeskongress.
  • Seventeen Bundestag deputies, including Gregor Gysi, Bodo Ramelow and Dietmar Bartsch, pressed the co-chairs in a letter to set clear boundaries for antisemites.
  • Saxony’s party leaders Anja Eichhorn and Marco Böhme condemned the youth decision, stressing the party’s commitment to historical responsibility and rejecting antisemitism.
  • Accounts from the Berlin congress describe a climate of intimidation in which delegates expressing solidarity with Israel were insulted, threatened and in some cases physically harassed.
  • The adopted motion labeled Israel a colonial and racist project, accused it of genocide and apartheid, and framed Palestinian liberation as part of a socialist revolution.