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Fast Forward German Extremists Busted for Plot To Attack Jews and Refugees
BERLIN (JTA) — Police have raided the homes of right-wing extremists across Germany on suspicion of planning attacks on Jews, refugees and police. Police searched 12 apartments and other sites across the country early on Wednesday, gathering information for an investigation. Seven suspects come from the states of Baden-Württemberg and Baden. Some 200 police officers from the states of…
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Breaking News Germans Honored for Preserving Local Jewish History
BERLIN(JTA) – Non-Jewish Germans who have helped preserve local Jewish history, and interested young Germans in it, were honored at the 17th annual Obermayer German Jewish History Awards. Rolf Wieland, president of the Berlin House of Representatives, presented the awards – established by the late American philanthropist Arthur Obermayer – on Monday in the Berlin Senate. Virtually all awardees said they face…
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Breaking News German Far Right Leader Slams Holocaust Memorial as ‘Monument of Shame’
A senior member of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has triggered outrage on social media for verbally attacking Berlin’s Holocaust memorial and saying that Germany must rewrite its history books to focus more on its own victims. The AfD’s anti-immigrant rhetoric has won support among Germans worried about the influx of more than a…
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Breaking News Holocaust Denying Far-Right Party No Threat to German Democracy: Court
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany’s highest court has found no legal grounds to ban the far-right extremist National Democratic Party of Germany. The long-awaited decision announced Tuesday was met with disappointment from Jewish leaders in Germany and abroad. It marks the second time that the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has considered barring the NPD, which is anti-foreigner, anti-EU,…
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Breaking News German Far Right Wing Uses Image of Iconic World War II Resistance Fighter
BERLIN (JTA) — A club supporting Germany’s right-wing populist “Alternative for Deutschland” party has raised hackles by using a World War II resistance heroine to pump up support, suggesting that Germany’s current leaders have something in common with the Nazis. “Sophie Scholl would vote for AfD” reads the advertisement posted last weekend on Facebook by a local division of AfD near…
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Breaking News Synagogue Arson Not Anti-Semitic — or So Rules German Court
BERLIN (JTA) — A new court ruling on an old case, which calls the arson of a synagogue an expression of anti-Israel protest, has brought Germany’s legal approach to anti-Semitism under renewed scrutiny. The head of the European Jewish Congress reacted with dismay to news that a German high court recently found no procedural errors in the 2015 and…
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News German Court: Synagogue Torching Was Israel Criticism, Not Anti-Semitism
A German regional court called the attempt to burn down a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in 2014 a criticism of Israel and not an anti-Semitic attack. By doing so, the court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that had come to the same decision in 2015, the “Jüdische Allgemeine,” Germany’s largest Jewish newspaper, reported….
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Community To Fight Radical Islamic Terror, Europe Must Move From Gestures To Action
Brandenburg Gate, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world, once the scene of mass Nazi rallies, emblazoned with swastika flags, was this week lit up with the flag of the Jewish State of Israel. Who would have thought in their lifetime, or even in the space of eighty years, this would ever happen?…
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