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Sunday, August 29, 2010

AFP: German banker under fire for 'racist' Jewish remarks

"German banker under fire for 'racist' Jewish remarks

(AFP) – 6 hours ago

BERLIN — Top politicians attacked a senior official from Germany's central bank on Sunday after comments about Jews, the latest in a string of controversial remarks that have provoked a storm in the country.

Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the six-man board at the powerful Bundesbank, told the Welt am Sonntag weekly: 'All Jews share a particular gene, Basques share particular genes, that differentiate them from others."

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