Pro-Israel Germans pin hopes on Free Democrats as coalition talks begin – “When it comes to the liberal democratic party, that is a party which has traditionally been very pro-Israel,” said Sacha Stawski, head of the watchdog group Honestly Concerned and organizer of the Israel Conference in Frankfurt. | JNS.org

(October 19, 2021 / JNS) With the Merkel-era soon to be over, Germany will turn a new political page with the rise of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the left-wing Green Party. With Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and its sister party, Christian Socialist Union (CSU), in shambles following the worst results in its history, the liberal Free Democrats (FdP) are now viewed by many Jews and pro-Israel advocates as the main plug towards a leftward stream in German leadership.