The Jews see themselves as the ‘chosen people’. They speak of the ‘promised land’. The next country Israel wants to invade is Turkey. Israel is a country that ‘invades other countries, mistreats and kills locals’. Israel has ‘the largest reservoir of donor organs’ and ‘breeds’ ‘baby-eating agents who kidnap children worldwide’.
What sounds like anti-Semitic conspiracy ideology from neo-Nazis or Islamist fanatics comes from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), more specifically from its Mannheim branch. The author is local politician Melek Hirvali Cizer in a Facebook post. Until this weekend, Cizer was a member of the executive committee of the Mannheim-Feudenheim local branch of the SPD, is active in the Working Group of Social Democratic Women and is a member of the district advisory board in Feudenheim.
She wrote her post last Friday – and a second one with the same agenda and no less crude. ‘What is Israel?’ she asks, continuing: ‘Europe owes these attacks’ – meaning the Israeli-American military strike against the mullah regime in Iran – ‘the mass influx of refugees who are being deliberately manoeuvred into the EU.’
And further, somewhat confused: ‘How long do they think this will work? Since when do paedophiles and baby eaters care about the good of others? Spain is probably not in the Epstein files and will not be blackmailed!’ Here, Cizer repeats her insinuation about ‘baby-eating’ Jews. At the end, she refers to the Spanish protest against the US and Israel and obviously insinuates that Spain cannot be blackmailed because it does not appear in the files on the Jeffrey Epstein abuse complex.
One of the two posts is no longer available in its original form, while the other has been heavily abridged. Cizer received mostly harsh criticism for the posts. One comment said, ‘You have no idea about reality, you spout utter nonsense and everything you say represents the depths of the Middle Ages.’ Cizer replied: ‘What is happening now is worse than in the Middle Ages. … Mullah in Iran is being fought as the evil devil and the next one is supposed to be Erdo.’
The SPD tried to smooth things over this weekend. When asked by the newspaper WELT, the federal executive committee referred to the Baden-Württemberg regional association and did not answer any questions. The Baden-Württemberg regional association referred to the Mannheim district association and also did not comment on the matter. The chairman of the Mannheim district association, Stefan Fulst-Blei, a member of the state parliament, then spoke on its behalf.
Cizer’s posts were ‘beyond the pale’ and ‘completely unacceptable’. They had nothing to do with legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Her Facebook posts had spread throughout the SPD over the weekend and caused outrage, according to Fulst-Blei. He had spoken to her himself and had been ‘very clear’ about his position. Cizer had realised that her comments were unacceptable and had resigned from all her offices and positions. She had informed the mayor of Mannheim of her resignation from the Feudenberg district advisory board by email.