Tag: Germany
German airline to appoint anti-Semitism manager after keeping Jews from flight
Lufthansa Airlines will hire an anti-Semitism manager and adopt the International Human Rights Commission’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism after an incident that garnered international attention, in which more than 100 identifiably Jewish individuals were barred from a flight on...
German anti-Semitic arts scandal continues to foment after festival director resigns
In the continued fallout of the scandal surrounding anti-Semitic works presented at the Documenta 15 art festival in Kassel, Germany, director Sabine Schormann has announced her resignation. The Jewish community, however, has called for actual consequences...
British Labour Party leader under fire for campaign spot filmed in Germany
Jews in the United Kingdom and Germany are speaking out against a campaign ad from Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, in which he is seen walking through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews...
German public TV blasted for airing claim ‘Jewish lobby’ controls US Mideast policy
The airing on German public television of an interview in which a German political scientist claimed that the Biden administration’s foreign policy was controlled by the “Jewish lobby” drew sharp criticism online and in...
German president honors Holocaust survivor with lifetime achievement award
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer with the country’s Walther Rathenau Prize for outstanding lifetime achievement in foreign policy, reported Deutsche Welle.
Born and raised in Berlin, Friedländer, 100, was the sole member...
Police investigate giant swastika on field in Germany
German police are investigating a giant swastika that was recently mowed into the grass on a field near Berlin and discovered by a journalist.
Julian Röpcke, the politics editor for the German publication Bild, spotted the...
Over 2,700 reported anti-Semitic incidents in Germany in 2021
The Department for Research and Information on Anti-Semitism (RIAS) in Germany said on Tuesday that it documented 2,738 anti-Semitic incidents last year, including 63 attacks and six cases of extreme violence.
The German government’s commissioner...
German Jews, politicians up in arms over failure to prosecute synagogue arsonist
On June 5, 2021, a man identified by German media as Serkan P. allegedly attempted to burn down the Ulm synagogue, in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg. Firefighters extinguished the blaze. Five days later,...
The ‘Judensau,’ then and now
Two major news stories to hit the headlines in Germany this month focused rather strikingly on negative depictions of Jews in works of art, raising once more the question of whether these visual displays...
Works at German art festival cause stir over anti-Israel, anti-Semitic nature
Anti-Semitic images at a leading art festival in Germany are being removed or covered up after German Jewish organizations and the Israeli embassy in Berlin came together to denounce a biased curation.
The images appeared...