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Frankfurt Becomes First German City to Outlaw Municipal Funding of BDS
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by JNS.org
The skyline of Frankfurt, Germany. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
JNS.org – Frankfurt has become the first German city to pass a bill outlawing municipal funding for the anti-Israel BDS movement’s activities.
“The BDS movement does not only strongly resemble the ‘Don’t buy from Jews’ argumentation of former times of the National Socialists, but the movement is built on the same toxic ground and it is poisoning the social climate in the same dangerous way,” Uwe Becker, Frankfurt’s deputy mayor and city treasurer, told the Jerusalem Post.
Becker said the BDS movement attacks the fundamental legitimacy of the Jewish state, adding, “That’s why we decided to ban any municipal funding or the renting of rooms for any activities of groups or individuals, who support the antisemitic BDS movement….We also instructed our city-owned companies and called upon private landlords to act in the same way.”
Frankfurt, which has a population of about 730,000, is the main financial and economic center of Europe’s wealthiest country. Another German city, Munich, is expected to pass a similar measure in the next few weeks. Frankfurt’s anti-BDS bill will now be voted on by the city’s parliament before it can become law.
