The Federal Government’s Antisemitism Commissioner, Felix Klein, has issued a call for increased solidarity with the Jewish community in Germany.
Klein’s remarks, released to the Funke-Mediengruppe newspaper group, highlighted the heightened threat facing Jewish life in Europe. He cited the recent arrests of suspected Hamas operatives in Berlin and the attack on a synagogue in Manchester during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, as indicators of the urgency of the situation.
“Five years after the terror attack on the synagogue in Halle during Yom Kippur and two years following the brutal Hamas attack on Israel, we are once again witnessing the eliminatory hatred stemming from antisemitism” Klein stated.
He emphasized that combating antisemitism effectively requires more than state intervention. “We must also respond as a society, given this boundless hatred” he urged. Klein underscored the importance of integrating Jewish life into the heart of German society and stressed that demonstrations of solidarity with the Jewish community are particularly crucial at this time.
