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Monday, May 9, 2016

Germany: "I observe with great skepticism when people demonstrating against refugees suddenly wave Israeli flags"


Via Times of Israel:
Besides the physical danger allegedly posed by Arab refugees, the Israeli ambassador in Berlin, Yaakov Hadas-Handelsman, points to a different problematic aspect of the current social and demographic trends in Germany. By focusing on refugees’ ostensible Jew hatred, society risks ignoring homegrown anti-Semitism, he argues.

“I observe with great skepticism when people demonstrating against refugees suddenly wave Israeli flags. That happened occasionally in recent days,” he wrote in an article for a local political journal last month. “Xenophobic people speak of ‘us Jews and Christians’ and call Islam our common enemy. That is nonsense.”
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