Germany

Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett on Sunday presented the Jewish state’s annual report on global anti-Semitism to the Israeli government. The report demonstrated that anti-Semitism is on the rise in several notable areas, particularly in Europe.

A blueprint for coalition negotiations between Germany’s Christian Democratic Union Party, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the country’s Social Democratic Party, headed by Martin Schulz, has stoked fears in Israel.

Upon the anniversary of the 2016 Berlin Christmas market terror attack, Jewish community leaders and other activists say that German politicians wrongly disconnect last year’s attack from Islamic motivations as well as the Islamist attacks that have hit Israel and other countries, leaving Germany—and particularly its Jewish population—susceptible to more terrorism.

he bearers of Hanukkah candles in Tübingen, Germany, aren’t Jewish. In fact, many of them are descendants of avowed Nazis.

In the German Jewish community, fears are growing that migration from Muslim countries with long histories of anti-Semitism might prompt a reversal of Germany’s confrontation of its anti-Semitic past as well as its strong relationship with Israel.

Despite France’s public quarreling with Iran in recent months, Europe is unlikely to fall in line with the hardline policies of America and Israel against the terrorism-supporting Tehran regime, experts say.