FEDERAL STATE VICE-PRESIDENT: Anti-Israel Insta post “That's not acceptable at all!” Özoguz tenable?

SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich has criticized the social media post by Social Democratic Bundestag Vice-President Aydan Özoguz on the Gaza war as a serious mistake and at the same time defended her against calls for her resignation. “I am very pleased that Ms Özoguz apologized so quickly and so clearly to the Council of Elders of the German Bundestag, but also to the Central Council of Jews, its President Josef Schuster and also to the public for sharing this Instagram post,” Mützenich told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper. “This apology was also urgently needed because we must not draw attention to the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza with a depiction that comes from a racist and anti-Semitic side that repeatedly stirs up hatred,” he emphasized.

According to her office, the SPD politician had shared a post from “Jewish Voice for Peace” as an Instagram story on Wednesday. Such stories delete themselves after 24 hours and the process can no longer be traced on her account. According to its own statements, the organization is committed to “Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism”. Özoguz apologized for the post. “It was a mistake to share this Instagram story. I apologize,” she said after a meeting of the Bundestag's Council of Elders about the incident.

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