Jamal Karsli

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Jamal Karsli (born September 2, 1956 in Manboj , Syria ) is a German politician and interpreter of Syrian descent who caused a nationwide sensation because of anti-Semitic statements.

It is also related to the " Möllemann Affair ".

Career

Karsli studied industrial chemistry in Damascus before coming to Germany in 1980. From 1982 to 1985 he studied civil engineering in Bochum and graduated with a degree in engineering. Until 1992 he received training in spatial planning at the University of Dortmund . Then Karsli went freelance as an interpreter and translator. He lives in Recklinghausen and is second married to an Italian teacher.

Political career

Karsli with the Greens

From 1993 to 2002 Karsli was a member of the Greens . For this party he entered the 13th state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia on October 10, 1995 , to which he was a member until June 1, 2000 and from October 25, 2000 to June 7, 2005.

In April 2002, Karsli sharply attacked the Israeli government by describing its approach to the Palestinians as "Nazi methods" , which met with severe criticism from his party and faction colleagues at the time. On April 23, 2002, he left the party and parliamentary group on the grounds that the Greens' Middle East policy no longer corresponded to his ideas, thus preventing him from being expelled .

Interlude at the FDP

After discussions with Jürgen Möllemann , who was of one opinion with Karsli on the Middle East, Karsli wanted to join the FDP and its North Rhine-Westphalian parliamentary group, which was met with strict rejection from several leading and prominent FDP politicians, especially since it became known that Karsli even the Junge Freiheit had given an interview in which he complained about the influence of a “ Zionist lobby ”. Karsli later claimed that he did not know that this was a real weekly newspaper. Möllemann proposed the compromise that Karsli should not remain a party member but a parliamentary group member. But this was also rejected by the Federal FDP, and so Karsli resigned from the FDP parliamentary group on June 5, 2002 in order to forestall his expulsion. Until 2005 he was a non-attached member of the state parliament .

Lawsuit against Michel Friedman and Paul Spiegel

In the course of the dispute over his admission to the FDP, two board members of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Michel Friedman and Paul Spiegel , called Karsli an " anti-Semite " . An injunction directed against this by Karslis in March 2003 was unsuccessful because, in the opinion of the court, “the extreme limit of defamation” has not yet been exceeded.

FACT

On June 29, 2003 he founded the party Peace, Labor, Culture and Transparency , abbreviated as FAKT , and became its chairman. The party saw itself as a social liberal and stood up for Möllemann's positions, in particular Turkey's accession to the EU . There was a high proportion of immigrants among the approximately 200 members . The party was only present at the North Rhine-Westphalian state level, where some district associations were also constituted. In 2004, Karsli wanted to run FAKT in the European elections , but the party was not admitted due to insufficient support signatures. On September 26, 2004, she ran unsuccessfully in the North Rhine-Westphalian municipal elections in Remscheid and Recklinghausen . Karsli and FAKT failed to be admitted to the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005 due to a lack of supporters' signatures . In the summer of 2005, Karsli made headlines again because he gave an interview to the Syrian television station Syrian TV in which he again spoke of the “Zionist lobby in Germany” . The party has not shown any activity since Karsli left the state parliament. It never met the requirements for state party funding . In accordance with Section 2 (2) of the PartG, FAKT lost its legal status as a party in September 2009 .

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anti-Semitism debate Karsli resigned from the FDP parliamentary group - Möllemann apologizes , Der Spiegel June 6, 2002
  2. ↑ Anti-Semitism dispute Karsli can't help it, Der Spiegel, June 21, 2002
  3. ↑ Jamal Karsli "They'll shut everyone up" , Manager Magazin March 12, 2003
  4. ↑ Jamal Karsli: A latent anti-Semite wrote a book , by Max Brym, HaGalil February 25, 2004
  5. ↑ Chronology of the Karsli case ( Memento of March 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ There are 24 parties in the European elections
  7. ↑ BT-Drs. 16/1252 - Briefing (PDF; 5.6 MB), April 19, 2006
  8. ↑ Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the PartG
  9. ↑ Selected data from political associations ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Information from the Federal Returning Officer, p. 16, as of December 31, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Karsli, Jamal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, FDP, FAKT), Member of the Bundestag and interpreters
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Manboj , Syria