Time Online: Mr Fereidooni, what do you think of an anti-Semitism that Bundestag is debating today?
Karim Fereidooni: Anti-Semitism is a cross-cutting issue that every politician should take into account when designing bills. We also already have a anti of Confederation, which does a good job.
Karim Fereidooniis a junior professor of Didactics of social science education at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He researches racism and diversity and educates policy teachers. Before that, he taught social sciences and German at a Catholic gymnasium.
Time Online: But should all students have to visit a KZ to think about anti-Semitism? The Berlin State Secretary for Civic Engagement, Sawsan Chebli (SPD), called for it or day, especially because Muslim immigrants and ir children and grandchildren stand out with anti-Semitic slogans and deeds.
Fereidooni: I find proposal in principle correct, but for all young people. Young people with a migrant background are primarily German youths. They are in third generation in Germany and learn about anti-Semitism in everyday life here. Moreover, we do not even know wher se attitudes are more common among Arab-born youths than in German. Perhaps y will only be articulated more openly, perhaps in Berlin-Neukölln we ask only more often than in Dresden-Nord. We are planning a study and will talk to students and parents.
Anti-Semitism calls for same stereotypes everywhereTime Online: But do Arabic-born youths have to be prepared differently for a concentration camp visit than those with German ancestors? Because y are relying on or experiences of family, i.e. Middle East conflict instead of Nazi past?
Fereidooni: No, because basic framework, which carries an anti-Semitic attitude, is same everywhere – Jews are portrayed in conspiracy ories as a particularly intelligent puller. This is a century-old stereotype. For teaching, we should better find a common German narrative in which all young people find mselves – and on this basis talk about anti-Semitism and racism.
Time Online: How can that go?
Fereidooni: We must finally see Germany as an immigration country and acknowledge that all young people living here are Germans. They should all feel responsible for German history, even if urope was not in Wehrmacht or SS, but lived in Turkey or Iraq. The German-born young people do not have such a close connection to perpetrators of Nazi era today eir. Before a visit to concentration camp, one should also discuss which Rassismuserfahrungen young people mselves do. Even if re is a clear distinction between state racism of Nazi regime and everyday racism today.
Time Online: They have also dealt with how to best bring democracy closer to refugees in integration brochures...
Fereidooni: It is important for us to be positive about German migration society. To show that everyone can live toger on an equal footing. It is not enough to put basic Law in hands of people. In integration brochures, however, re is only one: here men and women have equal rights. You have to adapt. That's very patronizing.
But if we tell how laborious road to Basic Law was in its present form, that in Federal Republic women had to ask ir men for a long time, wher y were allowed to work and that today we still have to talk about sexism in MeToo debate, n we can Say: We have come very far in contrast to or states, but we must continue our efforts. We're asking you to be re.
Date Of Update: 19 January 2018, 12:03
