德國猶太人領袖支持限制難民流入

The leader of Germany’s Jewish community has backed calls for refugee quotas, warning that many asylum-seekers are from cultures marked by “hate towards Jews and intolerance”.

德國猶太人社羣領袖約瑟夫舒斯特（Josef Schuster，見上圖）支持有關對難民流入設定最高限額的呼聲，他警告稱，很多尋求避難的人出身以“仇視猶太人和不寬容”爲特徵的文化。

Josef Schuster’s comments come amid a widening split over the issue between Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Bavaria-based CSU, sister party to her CDU. Ms Merkel has generally resisted such restrictions but is under increasing pressure from her Bavarian allies to toughen her stance.

在他發表上述言論之際，德國總理安格拉默克爾(Angela Merkel)與巴伐利亞基督教社會聯盟(CSU)在這一問題上的分歧日益加深。基社盟是默克爾領導的基督教民主聯盟(CDU)的姊妹黨。默克爾總體上反對這種限額，但她在巴伐利亞州的盟友正向她施加越來越大的壓力，要她改持更強硬的立場。

Even though Germany’s Jewish community is small, its views tend to carry great weight because of the country’s responsibility for the Holocaust.

儘管德國猶太人社羣規模較小，但其看法往往具有重要影響，這是因爲德國對“納粹大屠殺”(Holocaust)負有責任。

“Sooner or later we will not be able to avoid [setting] upper limits,” Dr Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Welt newspaper.

身爲德國猶太人中央理事會(Central Council of Jews)主席的舒斯特告訴《世界報》(Die Welt)：“我們遲早得面對（設定）上限的問題。

“Many refugees are fleeing the terror of the Islamic State and want to live in peace and freedom, but at the same time they come from cultures in which hate towards Jews and intolerance are fixed components. Don’t only think about the Jews, think about equal rights for women and the treatment of homosexuals.”

“很多難民正逃離伊斯蘭國(IS)製造的恐怖，想生活在和平自由之中，但另一方面，仇視猶太人和不寬容是他們文化的固有組成部分。不要只想到猶太人，想想女性的平等權利和他們如何對待同性戀吧。”

If the inflows continued at the current rates it would become “increasingly difficult” to integrate migrants and “pass on our values”.

如果難民繼續按現在的速度流入，融合移民和“傳遞我們的價值觀”將變得“越來越難”。

Dr Schuster, 61, was born in Israel to German Jewish refugees.

61歲的舒斯特生於以色列一個德國猶太難民家庭。

His call for quotas follows warnings about the risk posed by some Muslim refugees for German Jews. Dr Schuster and other Jewish leaders voiced their concerns at a meeting with Ms Merkel last month.

在他呼籲設定上述上限前，有人警告稱，一些穆斯林難民將對德國猶太人構成危險。舒斯特和其他猶太人領袖在上月與默克爾的一次會晤中表達了這種關切。

Stephan Kramer, a former secretary-general of the central council, said the fact that refugees came from countries where anti-Semitism was in the national education programme did “not automatically make a majority of refugees anti-Semites”.

德國猶太人中央理事會前祕書長斯特凡克拉默(Stephan Kramer)表示，一些難民來自那些國家教育計劃傳播反猶主義的國家，這並不“必然意味着多數難民是反猶主義者”。

After years of decline, the number of anti-Semitic crimes in Germany rose last year by 25 per cent to 1,596, according to the interior ministry. However, the figures showed that most were linked to German rightwingers and not to so-called “foreign ideology”.

德國內政部的數據顯示，在經歷了多年的下滑後，德國反猶罪案數量去年增長了25%，至1596起。不過，數據顯示大多數罪案與德國右翼分子有關，而非與所謂的“外來意識形態”有關。