[IsraelTimes] At least 10,000 protesters rally under banner of ’Never again is now,’ as Jewish community’s main leader says antisemitism ’common practice in Germany’
Several thousand people demonstrated against antisemitism in Berlin on Sunday as Germany grapples with a large increase in anti-Jewish incidents following the Hamas
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terror group’s devastating onslaught on Israel two months ago.
Police estimated that around 3,200 people gathered in the rain in the German capital, while organizers put the figure at 10,000, German news agency dpa reported. Participants in the protest, titled "Never again is now," marched to the Brandenburg Gate.
A group tracking antisemitism in Germany said in late November that it had documented a drastic increase in antisemitic incidents in the month after Hamas’s attack — a total of 994, an increase of 320 percent compared with the same period a year earlier.
Germany’s main Jewish leader, Josef Schuster, said that "antisemitism is common practice in Germany in the middle of society," and called for solidarity with Israel and with Jewish life in Germany.
Germany’s Labor Minister Hubertus Heil said that many decent people are too quiet on the issue. "We don’t need a decent, silent majority — we need a clear and loud majority that stands up now, and not later," he said.
The event had wide support, with the speaker of the German parliament and Berlin’s mayor also among its backers.
In a report, the Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism recorded three cases of "extreme violence," which it defines as attacks that can result in a loss of life or serious bodily harm, whether successfully committed or attempted, between October 7 and November 9, 2023.
One such incident occurred on October 18 in Berlin, when two Molotov cocktails were thrown at a Jewish community center that houses a synagogue as well as a kindergarten.
The report also listed 29 attacks, 72 incidents of targeted damage to property, 32 threats, four antisemitic mass mailings, and 854 cases of offensive behavior over the month-long period.
Donning a kippa, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz became the first in his role to light the menorah at Brandenburg Gate in the center of Berlin Thursday evening, where he called for the "immediate" release of hostages held by Hamas in Gazoo
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, accompanied by Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, the rabbi of Berlin’s Jewish community.
Scholz said he wanted to underscore that Jews were an "inextricable part" of German society, and called it "unacceptable" for them "to have to be afraid to practice their religion, their culture" in the country.
Antisemitism has skyrocketed around the world since war erupted between Israel and Hamas after the Hamas-led October 7 massacre, in which some 3,000 bandidos forces of Evil burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing some 240 hostages of all ages under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities.
Israel responded with a military campaign aimed at toppling the Hamas regime in Gaza and ensuring the end of its threat to southern Israel, as well as securing the release of the hostages.
Thousands march in central Brussels against antisemitism
[IsraelTimes] Thousands of people take to the streets of Brussels to protest antisemitism, after a surge in outbreaks across Europa
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during the war between Israel and Hamas
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Brussels police say around 4,000 people attended the march in the Belgian capital, with some holding placards reading: "You don’t have to be Jewish to march against antisemitism."
"An old evil is resurfacing in Europe," EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says during a Hanukkah candlelighting event in front of the Commission and European Council headquarters in Brussels. "Swastikas have been painted on the homes of Jews. Synagogues have been vandalized. Jewish children have been locked in their schools because the streets are not safe for them. This is horrific. And it is painful."
"There should be no place for this hatred, especially here in Europe. And there is no justification to the rise in antisemitism. No war, no political argument, can excuse it," she adds.
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