But in a few minutes from the Jewish Community Center Munich, guarded by the armed police, Acting President of the Jewish community Charlotte Knitball tells me how concerned it is.
Ms Knotoblok, born in the early 1930s, remembers her father’s arm and watched the windows of Jewish shops and burned the synagogues on a crystal night, the night of broken glass in November 1938, when the Nazi regime committed massive acts of violence against The Jews and their property, while most Germans, either rejoiced or looked the other way.
She says that anti -Semitism has never disappeared completely after the war, but she did not believe that everything would be as disturbing again as it is now. Even in Germany, she says, which has historically done a lot to confront her Nazi past and to combat anti -Semitism.
This statement is anecdotal supported by members of the Jewish community in Germany and other countries, which say they are now afraid to wear David’s star in public and prefer not to deliver Jewish newspapers to the house, fearing that they were hung on a Jew’s label. Their neighbors.
Community Security Trust studies in the UK and the EU Agency on fundamental rights talking about the same. Fra says 96% of Jews polled in 13 European countries report that they feel anti -Semitism in everyday life.
The Jewish communities in South America also note a significant rise in anti -Semitism, while the synagogue was thrown in Canada with a lightening bomb a few weeks ago, as well as an incident with shooting at a Jewish school. Last summer, Jewish graves were defiled in Cincinnati.
Former President Joe Biden called global anti -Semitism the problem of foreign policy. Academician Lipstat, who was his special messenger in monitoring and combating him, emphasizes anti -Semitism on the Internet – often together with Islamophobia and other forms of discrimination – which, according to her, manipulate external subjects such as Russia, Iran and China, To sow a split in society and further own goals and messages.
She also speaks of global anti -Semitism growth after Israel’s military response, which killed tens of thousands of Palestinians – after the massacre of 1200 people in Israel on October 7, 2023.
