J Posr:
“It is a sad reality that a large part of Jewish life for years has
taken place behind bulletproof glass, barbed wire and security access
controls,” [Berlin Jewish community spokesman Ilan] Kiesling said.
He added that the recent attacks in
Paris and Copenhagen, in which Islamic terrorists killed five Jews, have
created a new situation leading to “great insecurity” among community
members.
Parents registering their children for Jewish
kindergartens and schools “wish to be informed of the exact details of
security measures,” Kiesling said. The community is working with the
police and the Berlin Senate administration to “strengthen the security
of our institutions,” he added.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on
Tuesday, “We are glad and thankful that there is Jewish life in Germany
again. And we would like to continue living well together with the Jews
who are in Germany today.”
In his Die Welt column titled
“More protection for Jews means less dignity” on Thursday, Henryk M.
Broder, a leading German expert on contemporary anti-Semitism,
criticized the fortress-like security measures to protect Jews as an
illusion.
“It will not become better. It will become worse.
Toulouse was the prelude to Brussels and Brussels led to Paris.
Copenhagen will not be the final station. The list of attacks will
become longer,” wrote Broder.
In 2012, a French-Algerian
Islamist killed four French Jews in Toulouse. Two years later, a French
Islamic State fighter used an automatic weapon to kill four people,
including two Israelis, at the Brussels Jewish museum.
Broder
wrote, “What we are now experiencing is not a renaissance of Jewish life
in Germany and Europe, rather the end of an experiment,” adding
“Murderous anti-Semitism is not unique to Germany. It belongs now to
Europe like the imported Islamism which enables anti-Semitism.” More.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Germany: Fortress-like security measures to protect Jews are an illusion
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