Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli who is responsible for the fight against antisemitism condemned the German government's involvement in an event that compared the suffering in the Holocaust to that of the Palestinian Nakba.
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In a letter addressed to Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser, who is tasked with combatting antisemitism in her country, Chikli condemned a conference held last week in Potsdam in which author Charlotte Wiedemann, presented her book Understanding the Pain of Other, described as promoting solidarity instead of competition among victims and compares the victims of the Holocaust to those of the Nakba.
The conference titled Understanding the Pain of Others: The Holocaust and the Nakba, was held by The Einstein Forum, a foundation of the German federal state of Brandenburg, and was one in a number of events held in Germany in recent months that enjoyed German public funding.
Chikli said that the "loathsome attempts" to accuse Israel by employing the horrible massacre of six million Jews, for political reasons and compare the systematic murders of the Nazi regime during the Holocaust to events taking place during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, are reprehensible and are a perversion of the sacred memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
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Charlotte Wiedemann speaking at an event comparing the Holocaust to the Nakba
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The minister called on the German government to immediately investigate the events in question and refrain from funding Holocaust denial events or events that pervert the memory of the Holocaust in future. He also asked that severe action be taken against those who attempt to use German public funds for such purposes.