Revolt of the decent

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The appeal with which the then German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder addressed the public on October 4, 2000 is called the appeal for the uprising of the decent .

Arson attack on the Düsseldorf synagogue on October 2, 2000 and the appeal of the Federal Chancellor

The Federal Chancellor responded with his appeal to Paul Spiegel's ( ZdJ ) demand to set a clear “sign of solidarity” with the Jews after the arson attack on the synagogue in Düsseldorf . In the nightly attack, the entrance area of ​​the synagogue on Zietenstrasse in Düsseldorf-Golzheim was slightly damaged by a stone throw and three incendiary devices. A courageous resident immediately put out the fire. After the Chancellor had visited the crime scene on October 4, 2000, accompanied by the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Wolfgang Clement and Paul Spiegels, he said there “We need a revolt of the decent, looking the other way is no longer allowed” , and added that a measure of civil courage must develop in order offenders not only criminalized but would also socially isolated. The federal government will do everything possible to protect Jewish institutions in Germany. As a result of the appeal were in federal , countries and municipalities as well as numerous non-governmental organizations and citizens' initiatives "action plans" designed lights and demonstrations were organized. The red-green federal government initiated a program for the organizational and financial support of initiatives against right-wing extremism , xenophobia and anti-Semitism . The attack was also one of the reasons why the federal government decided to initiate a ban on the NPD at the Federal Constitutional Court . Since the perpetrators remained unknown for over two months, the public suspected that German right-wing extremists had committed the act; the time of the attack suggested a symbolic connection to the day of German unity .

Clarification of the perpetrators of the arson attack

After the North Rhine-Westphalian police finally confronted two young men of Arab origin suspected since the night of the crime , a German citizen from Morocco and a Palestinian from Jordan, with the results of a telephone surveillance, they confessed the synagogue with a stone's throw in early December 2000 and to have damaged three homemade Molotov cocktails . The motive they gave was that they wanted to seek revenge for the death of a boy who had been shot dead by Israeli forces a few days earlier in Gaza . To the fact that the perpetrators were not rights , mirror and politicians in Düsseldorf reacted by warning against slacking off in the fight against the right. The North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Fritz Behrens (SPD) stated that the background of the perpetrators was “no all-clear” and that “the real danger” was still there.

Reception and further discussion

The social commitment against right-wing extremism was presented by the “Tagesspiegel” on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 and the exposure of the right-wing extremist terror cell National Socialist Underground as part of the Federal German reason of state .

After Abdallah Frangi , the General Delegate of the Palestinian Autonomous Areas in Germany, in an interview with the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit on November 24, 2000, a connection between the arson attack on the Düsseldorf synagogue on October 2, 2000 and the one a few days earlier on September 28, 2000 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem with the al-Aqsa mosque that existed there, which is particularly sacred for Muslims , and noted, in view of the reactions of the Palestinians that it triggered , that Sharon's action had worked “as if a Nazi goes to the synagogue with a swastika, ”said the German-Israeli journalist Rafael Seligmann , saying that the clashes about the Middle East conflict had to be conducted in the Middle East and that Frangi was boiling emotions with his statements.

In December 2014, Schröder took up his appeal "Revolt of the decent" again in the public discussion about the movement Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (Pegida) . He expressed his appreciation for people who demonstrated against Pegida in Dresden and other cities . Schröder called for a clear demarcation of the democratic parties from Pegida .

In August 2015, the NDR journalist Anja Reschke also used the expression “uprising of the decent” in a daily topic comment on inciting foreigners on the Internet. With the words “The last uprising of the decent ones was 15 years ago. I think it's time again. ”She called on people to actively and publicly distance themselves from racism and hatred of foreigners. The video was viewed around 3.9 million times in just one day on Facebook alone and discussed intensively in social and traditional media in the days that followed. Many users praised Reschke on Facebook and Twitter and expressed their approval.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Attack on the synagogue: Schröder calls for "uprising of the decent" , in Der Spiegel of October 4, 2000
  2. ↑ a b Ulrich Dovermann: "The uprising of the decent". Federally funded projects on tolerance and moral courage (PDF; 310 kB), Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-89331-537-3 .
  3. ↑ a b President of the Central Council calls for signs of solidarity: arson attack on synagogue in Düsseldorf , in: Berliner Zeitung on October 4, 2000.
  4. ^ Appeal process: harsher penalties for attack on Düsseldorf synagogue . Article from October 11, 2001 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on April 13, 2013
  5. ↑ More civil courage: Schröder calls for an "uprising" against the right ( memento of the original from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article of October 4, 2000 in the portal handelsblatt.com , accessed on April 14, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.handelsblatt.com
  6. ^ The NPD prohibition process , Spiegel Online , January 25, 2002.
  7. ↑ a b c d e Tagesspiegel 7 December 2000
  8. ↑ Alex Busch: With Allah and Odin against the Jews. The attack on the synagogue in Düsseldorf and the gathering of the anti-Semites . Article in the portal Redaktion-bahamas.org after a presentation on April 8, 2001, accessed on April 13, 2013
  9. Jump up against the law as a reason of state. Der Tagesspiegel , January 28, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2014 .
  10. ^ "There can also be Arab Nazis" , interview with Rafael Seligmann in the daily newspaper on December 9, 2000, accessed on April 13, 2013
  11. ↑ Schröder calls for the uprising of the decent against Pegida Die Zeit, accessed on December 23, 2014
  12. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Topics of the day, accessed on August 7, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / meta.tagesschau.de
  13. ↑ [1] accessed on August 7, 2015