Felix Klein
U.S. State Department’s says it looks forward to participating in what a source says will be a ministerial-level summit.
On the flip side, Natan Sharansky wrote on Facebook: “It is important for the fight against antisemitism to include all political camps—from left to right.”
Felix Klein has “steadfastly fought against hatred of Jews,” said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.
“Elements being portrayed in certain exhibits are reminiscent of propaganda used by [chief propagandist of the Nazi Party Joseph] Goebbels and his goons during darker times in German history,” said Shira Ben Tzion, spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in Berlin. “All red lines have not only been crossed; they have been shattered.”
In a letter to the German chancellor, interior minister and foreign minister, 37 academics accuse German “anti-Semitism czar” Felix Klein of “weaponizing” anti-Semitism against critics of Israel.
His statements have indeed triggered discussion, in addition to calls for defying the recommendation.
On the heels of several polls alerting to an alarming rise in anti-Semitism, German Chancellor Angela Merkel led the signing of a compact to facilitate migration to Europe. But what does it mean for a European Jewish population that already feels vulnerable?
“We cannot leave fighting anti-Semitism in this country to the Jews,” stated the country’s new commissioner for Jewish affairs Felix Klein.
German organizations working abroad will have to sign contracts to ensure that they do not support or promote anti-Semitic activity, announced the country’s first anti-Semitism commissioner.
The chancellor and 13 German government ministers will hold an intergovernmental meeting (G2G) with their Israeli counterparts. This will be the seventh such meeting in the last decade.
According to Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein, an estimated “1,500 anti-Semitic attacks are registered by police every year.”
