When the Left Turns Against the Jews

There was a time when the political left in Germany stood for justice. For tolerance. For human rights. But somewhere along the way, it forgot that Jews are human too.

Today, across Germany, we are witnessing something deeply troubling: a moral drift on the left that is enabling, sometimes even embracing, antisemitism, all while cloaking itself in the language of progress.

We see it in the universities, where pro-Hamas demonstrations are cheered by leftist student groups who chant slogans they don’t understand, wave flags they don’t question, and rewrite history they never learned. These are not calls for peace. They are chants for the destruction of the Jewish state, sung proudly by students claiming to fight oppression.

The arrogance is staggering: Germany’s left wants to teach Jews about antisemitism. It’s gaslighting with a progressive smile.

We see it in the unions, where resolutions are passed condemning Israel but not Hamas, where boycotts of Jewish businesses are debated unironically in the same country where Jewish stores once had their windows smashed. When did “Never Again” become so conditional?

We see it in the cultural world, where left-leaning artists and intellectuals boycott Israeli voices, while remaining silent about Iranian executions, Syrian massacres, or Russian war crimes. Only one country is singled out.

The left once sang about solidarity. Now it chants slogans that call for Jewish death, and dares to call it justice.

And we see it in politics, where members of leftist parties join in solidarity with protests that call for intifada, then pretend it’s about human rights. It’s not. It’s about erasing Jews from Tel Aviv to Berlin.

This isn’t a fringe issue anymore. This is the new mainstream of the German left. Of course, not everyone on the left is antisemitic. Many oppose hatred in all its forms. But the silence of the majority is becoming indistinguishable from complicity. When Jewish students are told not to show their identity on campus, when Jewish voices are shouted down in public debates, when Holocaust memory is twisted into a political weapon, we have crossed a red line.

The left claims to fight racism. But it tolerates antisemitism.
It claims to support the oppressed. But it demonizes Jews.
It claims to stand for peace. But it marches with those who glorify terror.

The truth is simple: antisemitism has no political party. It exists on the far right but is now thriving on the left. And in Germany, of all places, that is a warning we cannot afford to ignore.

When anti-Israel protests become safe spaces for antisemitism, and Jewish students are told to stay quiet “for their protection,” we’re not debating politics anymore. We’re debating survival.

Criticizing Israeli policies is not antisemitism. But calling for Israel’s destruction is. Denying the Jewish people the right to self-determination is. Judging Jews everywhere for the actions of a state is.

The German left must make a choice. It can stand with Jews or with those who chant for their eradication. It cannot do both.

Because what begins as ideology ends in violence. And if history has taught us anything, the line between words and action is shorter than we think.

Jews in Germany are watching. Quietly. Carefully. The world is watching, too. Not with outrage, but with indifference. With double standards. With carefully worded statements and diplomatic shrugs.

And in the middle of it all, the silence of Germany’s left is not neutrality. It is the sound of a door closing slowly, deliberately, on the people they once swore to protect.