德国犹太人领袖支持限制难民流入

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”.

德国犹太人社群领袖约瑟夫舒斯特（Josef Schuster，见上图）支持有关对难民流入设定最高限额的呼声，他警告称，很多寻求避难的人出身以“仇视犹太人和不宽容”为特征的文化。

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.

在他发表上述言论之际，德国总理安格拉默克尔(Angela Merkel)与巴伐利亚基督教社会联盟(CSU)在这一问题上的分歧日益加深。基社盟是默克尔领导的基督教民主联盟(CDU)的姊妹党。默克尔总体上反对这种限额，但她在巴伐利亚州的盟友正向她施加越来越大的压力，要她改持更强硬的立场。

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

尽管德国犹太人社群规模较小，但其看法往往具有重要影响，这是因为德国对“纳粹大屠杀”(Holocaust)负有责任。

“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.

身为德国犹太人中央理事会(Central Council of Jews)主席的舒斯特告诉《世界报》(Die Welt)：“我们迟早得面对（设定）上限的问题。

“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.”

“很多难民正逃离伊斯兰国(IS)制造的恐怖，想生活在和平自由之中，但另一方面，仇视犹太人和不宽容是他们文化的固有组成部分。不要只想到犹太人，想想女性的平等权利和他们如何对待同性恋吧。”

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

如果难民继续按现在的速度流入，融合移民和“传递我们的价值观”将变得“越来越难”。

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

61岁的舒斯特生于以色列一个德国犹太难民家庭。

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.

在他呼吁设定上述上限前，有人警告称，一些穆斯林难民将对德国犹太人构成危险。舒斯特和其他犹太人领袖在上月与默克尔的一次会晤中表达了这种关切。

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”.

德国犹太人中央理事会前秘书长斯特凡克拉默(Stephan Kramer)表示，一些难民来自那些国家教育计划传播反犹主义的国家，这并不“必然意味着多数难民是反犹主义者”。

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”.

德国内政部的数据显示，在经历了多年的下滑后，德国反犹罪案数量去年增长了25%，至1596起。不过，数据显示大多数罪案与德国右翼分子有关，而非与所谓的“外来意识形态”有关。