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“[He] downplayed the most terrible time in the history of our country, and in the history of my family and religious community,” said Mike Delberg, who filed a complaint against the Palestinian Authority leader.
Does the open approach of Steffen Seibert mark a new era of friendship between Germany and Israel, or do his kind words belie a “business as usual” approach?
After a two-year COVID-induced hiatus, the award-winning play is returning with a potential world tour in the works.
The Olympic Committee of Israel said it was “moved to tears to experience the exciting continuity of Israeli sports on Munich soil.”
In a statement released Wednesday morning, Abbas called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime in modern human history.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid it was important that he clarify to Lapid personally his stance on the Palestinian leader’s accusation.
German arrested for Nazi salute to Israeli athletes visiting 1972 Munich massacre memorial
Israel’s ambassador to Berlin retweeted an article claiming the offending security guard was of “Arab descent,” and connected the incident with P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s claim that Israel had perpetrated “50 Holocausts.”
In response to the uproar, the Palestinian Authority head clarifies that he was referring to “crimes and massacres committed against the Palestinian people since the ‘Nakba’ at the hands of the Israeli forces.”
The families canceled their attendance at the 50-year anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Games over a dispute with the German government regarding compensation.
“Nobody should have to study at a university named after a Jew-hater,” said Michael Blume, the commissioner against anti-Semitism for the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Questions about former “Stern” editor Henri Nannen may lead to name changes for the journalism school and the prize that bear his name.
The airline will also adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism after an incident in May that went viral.
