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Now the country of Berlin is equipped with an anti-Semitism officer. After the Federal Commissioner and the branches in the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony-Anhalt and Saarland, the network will now be even closer: Victims and witnesses of anti-Semitic as*aults can from February on nationwide to turn to a new on-line registration office. What exactly should be reported is diffuse. For, as explained by the managing director of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Daniel Botmann, because police statistics usually only cover criminally punishable acts, a nationwide regulation is necessary. What can be reported now, if there is nothing criminally relevant? Thoughts? Feelings? Bad jokes? One click and you are anti-Semitic? A new, curiously lawless zone of suspicion arises, not covered by any law, legitimized by any democratic institution. Who is denounced in Germany as an anti-Semite, is done socially. But who decides if someone is anti-Semite? The new nationwide reporting center orients itself in the definition of anti-Semitism to works of the international alliance for Holocaust commemoration . The Alliance sees it this way: Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews that is viewed as hatred of property as well as against Jewish community institutions or religious institutions. In addition, the state of Israel, which is understood as a Jewish collective, can be the target of such attacks. This is a difficult German that you have to translate. If one follows the Geschwurbel, then a perception can allegedly something express. And also the state of Israel can be the target of such perceptions. If the State of Israel is understood as what its current government claims of it by law: A Jewish nation-state. Lots of legally extremely shaky can-formulas finally lead to the defense of a