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Klöckner Opens Bundestag With Tribute to Sydney Victims, Warns of Rising Antisemitism

She cast Germany's duty to its Jewish community as a mandate to confront hatred without relativizing murder.

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Mit einer emotionalen Rede eröffnete Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner die 49. Sitzung des Parlaments. Angesichts des antisemitischen Anschlags in Sydney warnte sie mit brüchiger Stimme, dass solche Taten auch hierzulande möglich seien.
Mit einer emotionalen Rede eröffnete Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner die 49. Sitzung des Parlaments. Angesichts des antisemitischen Anschlags in Sydney warnte sie mit brüchiger Stimme, dass solche Taten auch hierzulande möglich seien.
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Overview

  • Opening the Dec. 17 Bundestag session, Julia Klöckner honored those killed in the Sydney attack at a Chanukka celebration.
  • She warned that antisemitism in Germany is becoming more open, louder and deadly, stating that “Sydney could have been in Germany.”
  • Officials report that two attackers opened fire at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, killing 15 people and injuring many others.
  • Klöckner condemned reactions of open or silent gratification and scorn as incompatible with core constitutional values and vowed parliament will not tolerate any relativization of the murder of Jews.
  • She highlighted the death of Holocaust survivor Alexander (Alex) Kleidmann, reportedly shielding his wife, and later lit a Chanukka candle at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate under heightened security.