fears of rising anti-Semitism

The Holocaust, says Bader, is “why I love Hitler”. A 33-year-old Palestinian, he is one of a number of voices quoted in a study released this week which identified “widespread anti-Semitism” among Arab refugees to Germany.


The AJC study was released at a time of mounting fears that the long-banished spectre of German anti-Semitism is beginning to re-emerge — revived by the influx of more than a million mainly Muslim refugees in 2015-16.

“It is something to be ashamed of when anti-Semitism is so openly displayed on the streets of German cities,” said Steffen Seibert, Angela Merkel’s spokesman.


Even before the latest demonstrations, many of Germany’s 100,000 Jews were feeling uncomfortable. There were 470 anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin alone last year, a 16 per cent increase on 2015. The seriousness of the problem was exemplified by the story of a Jewish teenager, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, who was forced to quit his Berlin school earlier this year after being repeatedly beaten and abused by Arab and Turkish classmates. 

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