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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Op-Ed: The truth about anti-Semitism in Germany

Two weeks ago German public television broadcast a film titled Anti-Semitism today – how hostile is Germany? 1.6 million people watched the 50-minute-documentary – not very many in a country of 82 million. 
A few newspapers wrote about it, and not a single political leader commented on it.
Public outrage? Not at all. 
And yet the film revealed some shocking details about German society that should indeed have raised a discussion. Anti-Semitism, it showed, is by no means only a problem among poorly educated, socially disadvantaged right-wing extremists in East Germany.

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