03.06.2012                      13.Siwan. 5772

Jenas Bürgermeister:

German controversy over Israel boycott

Politicians reject German mayor’s Israel boycott. Schröter: goal is to label goods from ‘illegal’ settlements.

Social Democratic, Left Party and Christian Democratic politicians rejected last week Jena Mayor Albrecht Schröter’s campaign for a wide-ranging boycott of Israeli products.
Critics accused Schröter, 57, the Social Democratic mayor of Jena in Thuringia state, of fostering modern anti-Semitism with his support for a call by the German branch of Pax Christi, an international Catholic “peace movement”, to not buy Israeli goods….