German Chancellor Angela Merkel | Maurizio Gambarini/AFP via Getty Images German conservatives to propose deporting anti-Semitic migrants Anti-Semites ‘cannot have a place in country,’ draft legislation reads.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance has said it will propose beefed-up legislation to deal with anti-Semitism among migrant groups, which would include the possibility of deportation.

The draft legislation calls on the "absolute acceptance of Jewish life" to be considered a "benchmark" for integration and stipulates that "those who refuse Jewish life in Germany or question the right of existence of Israel, cannot have a place in our country," German newspaper Die Welt reported Saturday.

The parties will propose the new rules by Holocaust memorial day on January 27, according to Die Welt.

While deportation orders will have to comply with rules set by the German parliament in 2016, migrants found guilty of anti-Semitic hate speech would face deportation under the new law.

Deputy chairman of the CDU-CSU group in the German Bundestag Stephan Harbarth said: "We must resolutely oppose the anti-Semitism of migrants with an Arab background and from African countries."

The proposal comes in the wake of protests against the Israeli state in Berlin last month, sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The protestors burned Israeli flags and chanted anti-Semitic slogans, prompting strong responses from officials in Germany, where anti-Semitism remains a highly sensitive issue.

Germany’s acting justice minister Heiko Maas reacted to the protests saying anti-Semitism is an “attack on everyone” and can’t be “allowed to have a place [in society] again.”