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Representing Jewish Communities in 100 Countries Across Six Continents
01 April 2010
Jewish leaders have expressed alarm over a rise in anti-Semitism in the German capital Berlin, following two violent incidents on the city’s public transport system. Late Saturday, two 23-year-old women and a 25-year-old man were beaten and insulted with anti-Semitic slurs on a subway train.
The Jewish Community of Berlin warned of an alarming rise in anti-Semitic violence by Arab and Turkish immigrants. "There's an urgent need to fight the roots of anti-Semitism, especially coming from young Turks and Arabs, and to effectively counter it," the community said in a statement. "That the violence from the immigrant community is being increasingly aimed at Jews or people they assume are Jews is alarming," it added.
Police reported at the weekend that two women and a man were beaten, struck on the head with beer bottles and insulted by a gang of immigrants in an underground station.
Local media reports said the three were first asked if they were Jewish. The attack started after they said yes. Police said they were searching for the assailants. In a separate incident, a 61-year-old German was detained after shouting anti-Semitic slogans at two 10-year-old girls at a train station. He threatened to beat a 28-year-old man who tried to protect them with a beer bottle. He was detained and faces charges of inciting racial hatred and attempted bodily harm.
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this is not a german native antisemitism attack but some imigrant muslims did it, this is the starting of a small or big religion conflict in europe
in europe, every day, muslims made some intimidation to different others community
we need to be carefull and always in alert
thank for this sad news
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I have long questioned the logic of those Jews who have chosen to make Germany their home since the end of the Holocaust. It baffles the mind that Jews could consider living again in a country whose society was so rotten to its core with public support and heinous participation in nationwide persecution of the country's Jewish minority. The German government and its people largely lost their humanity.
Germany now has a large resident Moslem community. Like in Moslem communities in other European countries, anti-semitism, largely fueled by opposition to Israel, has become a major problem. These grevious incidents are just the tip of the potential iceberg.
The German government has the makings of a major crisis on its hands. Largely because of its own centuries-old history of anti-semitism, it must stand strongly and without equivocation, against this wave of anti-semitism and must make it publicly clear that it will not allow the resident Moslems, or any other Germans, to behave in this manner. If this means having soldiers posted in railway stations, on streetcars, in sports arenas, and at the door of every synagogue and Jewish community center, then the government must do so, and quickly. To allow these kinds of incidents to occur and continue on German soil would once again prove to the world that Germany is the same country that it was under the Nazis.. I believe it would not take much for the German populace to pick up this thread and join the Moslems in their hatred of the Jews. The seeds of anti-semitism are too close to the surface in Germany. There are around 200,000 Jews in Germany today, at least half of whom are affiliated in some way with Jewish institutions. The German government has taken in these Russian Jews, now it must protect them from harm and must stop the hatred in its tracks before any more Jews are harmed.
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