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Young Social Democrats Want Germany to Stop Its Anti-Israel Votes at UN
(Jerusalem Post) Benjamin Weinthal - The 70,000-member Young Socialists (Jusos) organization of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) last month condemned its leadership's anti-Israel voting record at the UN. Jusos wrote of the "disproportionate condemnation of Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East," and urged Germany to "dissociate from the initiatives and alliances of anti-Semitic member states in the bodies and specialized agencies of the United Nations." Germany's Social Democratic Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has greenlighted nearly 30 condemnations of Israel at the UN since 2018. In March, Germany's ambassador to the UN, Christoph Heusgen, compared Israel with the terrorist organization Hamas.