Israel resolutions: “It’s shocking what I’m experiencing” – Brandenburg’s anti-Semitism commissioner resigns from the Left | EUROtoday

Brandenburg’s anti-Semitism commissioner Andreas Büttner has resigned from the Left Party. The causes included a dispute over the evaluation of Israel’s actions and an absence of assist for him, Büttner stated on Sunday night.

“I hesitated for a long time because I have felt connected to this party for many years,” says a letter to the celebration, reported by a number of media retailers. “But I have come to a point where I have to realize: I can no longer remain a member of this party without betraying my own convictions.”

Büttner emphasizes that he was additionally supported by the SPD, CDU and the Greens in his election as anti-Semitism commissioner in 2024. “What I have had to experience within my own party for years is all the more shocking to me.”

The state celebration convention of the Left in Lower Saxony determined to reject Zionism and to explain Israel as a “genocidal state” and an “apartheid state”. “These decisions are no longer acceptable to me,” defined Büttner.

“Politically absurd”

He additionally skilled assaults from celebration members himself, for instance on social media. The celebration remained largely silent on the matter. “Instead of support, I experienced relativization,” writes Büttner. “My own national association has also remained silent rather than publicly taking a stand against the attacks against me.”

The present climax of this growth is a celebration expulsion process pending towards him. The Federal Arbitration Commission knowledgeable him that, of their view, the appliance towards him was not unfounded. “The anti-Semitism commissioner of a federal state is under suspicion of exclusion from his own party because he clearly states anti-Semitism,” stated Büttner. “This is politically absurd.”

This additionally applies to the declare that there isn’t any anti-Semitism downside within the Left Party. According to Büttner, he may now not reconcile continued membership within the Left along with his conscience. “And I cannot reconcile it with my responsibility as the representative for combating anti-Semitism in the state of Brandenburg.”

The former FDP politician and member of the state parliament Büttner joined the Left in 2015. In 2018 he grew to become State Secretary within the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family of the State of Brandenburg. From 2019 to 2024 he was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament for the Left.