A Jewish male model is running for Germany’s parliament - on the far-right ticket
By Cnaan Liphshiz September 24, 2021- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
▻https://www.jta.org/2021/09/24/global/in-a-heavily-muslim-part-of-berlin-a-gay-israeli-is-running-for-germanys-parlia
(JTA) – At a political rally in Berlin in June, a young Jewish gay man wearing a turquoise kippah launched his campaign to represent one of Germany’s most ethnically diverse constituencies in parliament.
The man, 34-year-old Marcel Yaron Goldhammer, promised to stoke the “embers of unity, justice and freedom” during his announcement speech in front of about 200 people in the southeastern Berlin neighborhood of Neukolln.
But he’s not running for a liberal party, or one promoting multiculturalism.
Goldhammer, a dual German-Israeli citizen and a former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, is running on the ticket of AfD, or Alternative for Germany, a right-wing populist party that opposes immigration from Muslim countries and wants Germany to leave the European Union. Its critics call it radical, inherently xenophobic and antisemitic.(...)
