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| Berlin anti-Semitic assailant turns self in, said to be Palestinian from Syria | |
| 2018-04-20 | |
| [IsraelTimes] An asylum seeker aged 19, belt-wielding attacker was filmed by his victim -- an Arab Israeli who wore a Jewish skullcap as an experiment; clip has caused outrage A 19-year-old Paleostinian asylum seeker from Syria turned himself in to German police Thursday after his violent anti-Semitic attack on an Arab Israeli man wearing a Jewish skullcap in Berlin caused outrage across Germany. Police said the suspect they had already identified from the footage and witness statements had presented himself with a lawyer and would face a judge to be held on assault charges. Bild daily identified him as a Paleostinian from Syria named Knaan S. who was registered at a refugee home in Brandenburg state outside Berlin but was most recently living "out of a suitcase" in the capital. The victim, initially thought to be Jewish, told German television on Wednesday night that he wasn’t, but wanted to find out whether it was safe to walk in the street dressed as a Jew. He said he wore the skullcap as an experiment because he didn’t believe a friend who told him it’s too dangerous to wear one in public in Germany. "I am not Jewish, I am an Israeli and I grew up in Israel in an Arab family," Adam Armush, 21, told broadcaster Deutsche Welle. "It was an experience for me to wear the skullcap and go out into the street yesterday."
DW was able to interview the two victims and establish the following: - Neither of them is Jewish. One, Adam, is an Israeli citizen who comes from an Arab family in Israel and who studies veterinarian medicine in Germany. The other, Salah, is a German citizen with Moroccan roots who describes himself as an atheist. Police released no information on Thursday about the attacker's possible motivations. He is heard yelling the Arabic word for "Jew" on the video. Lost in the uproar created by the video on Wednesday, the Antisemitism Research and Information Office (RIAS) released statistics about the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin in 2017. RIAS said it had counted 947 such instances of anti-Semitism last year ‐ a 60-percent increase over 2016. Better numbers for better prevention Up to 90 percent of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany are classified as right-wing holy warrior. But Germany's newly appointed Anti-Semitism Commissioner Felix Klein says better data is needed. "One urgent topic is criminal statistics, according to which 90 percent of anti-Semitic crimes are committed by far-right holy warriors," Klein told Die Welt newspaper. "But I hear something different from Jews in Germany. Above all, Moslem anti-Semitism is greater than the statistics express. But until now, we only have these numbers." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 interesting how the official antisemitism attack numbers have been manipulated probably many 'far right' attacks are Islamic because the media has called Islamic terrorism 'far right' Islam |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-04-20 12:01 |
| #1 Will get off with symbolic punishment. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-20 04:21 |