Obviously, my original point was that why does Germany act like they pretend to care about the "anti-Semitism" in that article, when they're bringing in people who run around on the streets, belting Jews? Priorities.
As someone who grew up in Germany, I can tell you that to Germans in general, the two things - caring about anti-semitism and bringing in a large number of refugees - are born from the same trauma, i.e. WW2 and gaining the reputation as the most destructive bigots in Europe. It's that whole holocaust thing again....
This is a psychosis within the German cultural mindset, and thus irrational, at least to a certain degree. Number 1, barely anybody who had anything to do with the holocaust is still alive, let alone in a position of authority (actually, there was a story a few years ago how they put a 90 year old on trial when they figured out he was a guard during the war at a KZ). Number 2, Germany can now objectively laud itself as one of the least racist societies on the planet, 80 years of constant repentance for ancestral crimes committed has basically eradicated racism from anywhere but the extreme right fringes.
The point I'm trying to make is that the average German today has fuck all to do with gassing 6 millions of Jews, and furthermore the average German today is the exact opposite of the kind of person who'd think it's ok to discriminate based on race, or anything else. This has been true for decades, probably since as early as the late 60s. But the psychosis, i.e. the irrational guilt for crimes committed by another generation, is strongest within what we'd call the baby boomer generation. Of course, baby boomers, just like on this continent, are still largely the ones running things. In that context, opening the doors to more than a million refugees, was the ultimate atonement for sins of the past for Merkel and those of her generation (and also younger Germans who carry the same trauma still, albeit not to the same degree). Finally we proved to everybody that we're nothing like the Germans of the second WW, but as I said, that's been true for decades anyway.
Say what you want about Germans, but they're not a stupid people, neither do they have a tendency for dishonesty, rather they are known for bluntness in truth. There was an optimism ('We can do it!') at the heart of the refugee acceptance program that effectively nullified the already existing worries. Since then, things have obviously become clearer, starting with the attacks in Cologne. I know that the narrative in certain news sources is pushed that German media don't report on these crimes, but they absolutely do, quite openly actually. The problems associated with refugees are well known and documented objectively, but due to the past trauma, the average German will be very slow to make any sort of judgement lest they be labeled racists (same dynamic as here, but with a worse implication, i.e. being labeled a Nazi in a country where that's literally the worst thing possible.