Local head of Turkish-Islamic association in Germany resigns after meme of US Presidents controlled by Rothschilds and other social media posts exposed

The chairman of a Turkish-Islamic association in the German city of Göttingen has resigned after antisemitic hate messages and conspiracy myths that he had allegedly posted on social media were exposed by a socialist youth organisation.

The group, Die Falken, claimed that Mustafa Keskin’s WhatsApp profile featured a meme depicting Donald Trump and Joe Biden as “old and new puppets” of investment bankers with a prominent member of the Rothschild family as the “puppet-master”.

According to the International Definition of Antisemitism, “Making mendacious, dehumanising, demonising, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions” is an example of antisemitism.

The youth group said that it had been “horrified” to discover that Mr Keskin was spreading antisemitic hate messages and conspiracy myths on WhatsApp and Facebook and stated on its website that this was not acceptable “for a community leader in Göttingen.”

Mr Keskin claimed that, as an interfaith leader, he had recently participated in a “Roundtable of Abrahamic Faiths” event with Jewish and Christian colleagues and that his postings were intended only as “criticisms of the Israeli government.”

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