(Jewish Group) Four Incidents a Day: New Type of anti-Semitism Rears Its Head in Germany

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The news from Berlin this week proved, above all, that reality is sometimes too complicated to be conveyed in a newspaper headline.

The German Jewish community took to the streets on Wednesday after a Syrian Arab immigrant violently attacked an Israeli Arab from Haifa who was wearing a kippa, or skullcap, in solidarity with his Jewish friends. Several German Facebook pages have speculated about the motive for the assault, which took place in Berlin last week. But the fact that the victim wore a kippa sufficed to classify it as an anti-Semitic incident.

This, coupled with the fact that the assault was filmed and the clip subsequently went viral, was enough to bring several thousand people – Jews, Germans and Muslim immigrants – into the streets in Berlin and other cities under the slogan “Germany wears a kippa.”

One of the kippa-wearers was German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who explained that any assault on Jews in Germany was an attack “on all of us.” The German press ran reports headlined “What is a kippa?” and explained that the kippa has become the symbol of the battle against anti-Semitism in Germany.


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