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“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.”
German Jews want Stuttgart to appeal the decision.
“The defamation of Jews by the churches must belong in the past,” said Central Council of Jews in Germany president Josef Schuster.
The Israeli Defense Ministry’s Rehabilitation Division and the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization will lead the Israeli delegation.
During the 32nd Convention of the CER in Munich, Germany, a host of Jewish leaders met to discuss launching a new international division.
Driver rams into Berlin shopping area where Israeli was killed in terror attack
German authorities have not yet attributed a motive and seem usually cautious to do so.
Germany to receive law-enforcement training on anti-Semitism from Yad Vashem
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said “for us, and also for me personally, it is very important to preserve the memory of the Shoah.”
An annual festival meant to turn an evil part of history into something of beauty wrestles head-on with the lasting impacts of the Holocaust and German anti-Semitism.
The defendant, age 101, who was only identified as “Josef S.,” is charged with 3,518 counts of being an accessory to murder at Sachsenhausen.
The New York Philharmonic is set to take up residency at the Usedom Music Festival, once the secretive home of the Third Reich’s rocket and nuclear development program.
The Lufthansa affair comes on the heels of a community still souring over the Gil Ofarim incident, which might have damaged the credibility of Jewish claims of anti-Semitism. Could that be the cause of the muted response by the Zentralrat, the official Jewish body?
It comes after video surfaced of an employee telling a Jewish passenger that those who were banned are “Jewish from JFK” and that it was the “Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems.”
