But at a short distance, at the Jewish community center in Munich, which armed police protect, the acting president of the Jewish community, Charlotte Noblich, tells me how worried he is about the hostility of the modern era.
Born in the early 1930s, Ms. Noblechwich in November 1938, when the Nazi government carried out mass violence against the Jews and her, holding her father’s hand in Crystal Nakht, broken glass nights. Remembering the windows of Jewish shops and watching the synagogues in flames. Property, while most non -Jewish Germans expressed happiness or looked toward the other
She says that after the war, the hostility never ended completely, but she was not convinced that things would be as disturbing again as now. Even in Germany, she says, who has historically done a lot to fight her Nazi past and to be alert against enmity.
This is a claim that members of the Jewish community in Germany and elsewhere have confirmed that they are now afraid to wear the Star of David in the public and do not prefer to deliver Jewish newspaper to their homes. , Fear that they will be labeled “Jews”. Their neighbors.
The study of the Community Security Trust in the UK and the European Union’s basic rights agency also tells the same story. The FRA says 96 percent of Jews interviewed in 13 European countries reported that there was enmity in everyday life.
Jewish communities in South America also noted a significant increase in hostility, while in Canada, a synagogue was set on a synagogue a few weeks ago and a firing occurred at a Jewish school. Jewish graves were disgraced in the Cincinnati city last summer in the United States.
Former President Joe Biden identified global hostility as a concern for foreign policy. Academic Deborah lipstat, which was his special envoy to monitor and counter it, highlights online hostility – often with Islamophobia and other types of discrimination – which she says about External elements like Russia, Iran and China manipulate the seeds of division into society. To advance their own goals and messaging.
She also talks about the global rise in hostility after Israeli military response in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians – after the massacre of 1,200 people led by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
