Germany
The families are threatening to boycott the attack’s 50th anniversary commemoration in September if the current proposal stands.
“The devastating realization remains that in Germany in 2022, it took weeks of immense public pressure—once again almost exclusively from Jewish organizations—before the display of ‘Stürmer’ caricatures had consequences,” said Remko Leemhius, director of AJC Berlin.
“It is a matter of decency and long-established convention in Germany that you never stoop to using the Berlin Holocaust memorial as a prop,” said Joe Glasman of the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
“Classic global-conspiracy Nazi anti-Semitism is probably back in the mainstream now. Great,” says the former AJC assistant director of government affairs in Berlin.
“How can a city claim to be a good friend of the Jewish State of Israel and at the same time has a partnership with another state that [says] it wants to wipe Israel off the map?”
“We cannot change what happened, but it must never be allowed to happen again,” said Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer.
Police investigate giant swastika on field in Germany
Julian Röpcke, politics editor for the German publication “Bild,” spotted the Nazi symbol in Brandenburg and posted images on Twitter.
One piece restituted was Johann Jakob Schillinger’s “Devil’s Bridge” from Berlin’s Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings).
Officials will continue giving a public platform to the anti-Israel Palestine Committee Stuttgart.
There is little chance he will serve time because of his age.
The COVID-19 pandemic and related anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, coupled with the Middle East conflict, were the main themes.
Germany’s continued failure to take action against a Turkish suspect who fled the country following an attempt to burn down the Ulm synagogue in 2021 has sparked outrage.
