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10.1.2022. 7:53
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In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far right
BY JOE BAUR JANUARY 5, 2022



Monika Salzer govori na demonstracijama " Omas Gegen Rechts group"

BERLIN (JTA) — Neo-Nazis in Germany and Austria have a formidable new foe: grandmothers.
The rise in right-wing antisemitism in those German-speaking countries, along with years of mounting anti-immigrant sentiment pushed by some in government, were catalysts for Susanne Scholl, a retired television journalist. In the fall of 2017, she joined the fledgling Omas Gegen Rechts group, or Grandmas Against The Right. 
“When I saw the group, I said ‘I’m in,'” she said.

Omas Gegen Rechts started as a group of 10 elderly women at a protest of over 5,000 against some of the right-wing policies of former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in late 2017. It has since become a movement of over 100 local chapters in Germany and seven in Austria. Some of them are Jewish, some of them not, but they are all aligned against the forces that they say are driving antisemitism. -- Their efforts haven’t gone unnoticed by Jewish organizations and their supporters. 

In 2020, the Central Council of Jews in Germany awarded Omas Gegen Rechts the Paul Spiegel Prize for Civil Courage. The prize has been handed out since 2009 in memory of the Council’s earlier president, Paul Spiegel, and those committed to fighting racism and antisemitism.

“The Omas Gegen Rechts are regularly harassed because of their activities but they never allow themselves to be intimidated,” wrote Josef Schuster, president of the Council. “They send loud and clear signals against antisemitism and racism. That’s exemplary and we wanted to honor that with this award.” 
“They show that this kind of active advocacy for democracy is still possible at an advanced age,” he added.

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U Njemačkoj i Austriji pokret "baka" preuzima borbu protiv  krajnje desnice
JOE BAUR, 5. SIJEČNJA 2022. 

BERLIN (JTA) - Neonacisti u Njemačkoj i Austriji imaju novog strašnog neprijatelja: bake.  Porast desničarskog antisemitizma u tim zemljama njemačkog govornog područja, zajedno s godinama rastućih antiimigrantskih osjećaja koje potiču neki u vladi, bili su katalizatori za Susanne Scholl, umirovljenu televizijsku novinarku. U jesen 2017. pridružila se novonastaloj grupi Omas Gegen Rechts ili "Bake protiv desnice".

Omas Gegen Rechts započeo je kao skupina od 10 starijih žena na prosvjedu  protiv neke od desničarskih politika bivšeg austrijskog kancelara Sebastiana Kurza krajem 2017.  Od tada je postao pokret  ima od preko 100 lokalnih ogranaka u Njemačkoj i sedam u Austriji. Neki od njih su Židovi, neki nisu, ali svi su usmjereni protiv snaga za koje kažu da pokreću antisemitizam. 

Njihovi napori nisu prošli nezapaženo od strane židovskih organizacija i njihovih pristaša. Središnje vijeće Židova u Njemačkoj dodijelilo im je 2020. nagradu Paul Spiegel za građansku hrabrost. Nagrada se dodjeljuje od 2009. godine u znak sjećanja na prethodnog predsjednika Vijeća, Paula Spiegela, i na one koji se zalažu za borbu protiv rasizma i antisemitizma.

"Omas Gegen Rechts redovito su maltretirani zbog svojih aktivnosti, ali nikada ne popuštaju zastrašivanju", napisao je Josef Schuster, predsjednik Vijeća. “Šalju glasne i jasne signale protiv antisemitizma i rasizma.   "Oni pokazuju da je ova vrsta aktivnog zalaganja za demokraciju još uvijek moguća u poodmakloj dobi", dodao je.
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