Atmosphere is increasingly heated on German streets and on social media
President says it is a ‘disgrace that in Germany of all places’ Jewish children are afraid to go to schoolPeople wave Israeli flags as they attend a demonstration in Berlin on Sunday to show solidarity with Israel and opposition to anti-Semitism. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images, Sunday’s pro-Israel demo “against terror and anti-Semitism” drew a much smaller crowd on a sunny autumn afternoon than an anti-vaccine gathering had done in the same place three years ago.
Gaza stories: ‘I have lost my house, I have lost everything. We are hearing heavy shelling everywhere’“It is a crime that you cannot mourn lost Jewish lives in Berlin without becoming a target oneself,” she said. Eight decades after Nazi Germany organised the mass murder of six million European Jews, many German Jews now speak of betrayal.
An activist holds a placard during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians in Berlin on Saturday. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA-EFE Amid an increasingly heated atmosphere – on the streets and on social media – there has been a striking silence from Berlin’s usually vocal cultural scene.
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