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People protest against Israel during a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration in Berlin, Germany, September 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Christoph Soeder)
November 22, 2025, 8:38 am
Germany’s antisemitism czar seeks ban on ‘From the river to the sea’ chant
Felix Klein, supported by German justice minister, says post-Oct. 7 ‘existential threats’ against Israel mean slogans calling for its destruction must be banned
By Shira Li Bartov
Sign saying "JEWS are banned from here!!!", posted by a store in Flensburg, Germany, September 2025. (X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 19, 2025, 5:51 am
German shop sign banning Jews sparks wide condemnation, police action
Flensburg store owner claims ban ‘not even antisemitism. I just can’t stand you’; Israeli envoy: ‘The 1930s are back’; German official slams sign as Jew hatred ‘in its purest form’
By ToI Staff
Marla-Svenja Liebich (Reuters)
August 30, 2025, 10:27 am
German neo-Nazi shakes up trans debate after changing gender, being sent to women’s prison
Marla-Svenja Liebich, who claims to have converted to Judaism and until recently went by name of Sven, sentenced to 18 months for offenses including incitement to racial hatred
By AFP
Illustrative: A German police officer stands guard in front of a synagogue to secure the building in Frankfurt, Germany, November 8, 2023. (Michael Probst/AP)
October 4, 2024, 11:22 pm
German antisemitism czar says country facing ‘tsunami’ of Jew hatred since Oct. 7
Felix Klein warns ‘open and aggressive antisemitism’ is ‘stronger than at any time since 1945,’ says ‘under no circumstances’ should Jews be blamed for events in Mideast
By AFP and ToI Staff
Hundreds of people keep a vigil at the synagogue in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
June 28, 2022, 7:43 pm
In Germany, over 2,700 antisemitic incidents reported in 2021
Berlin’s commissioner on anti-Jewish racism says ‘dark figures,’ including 63 attacks, are frightening; right-wing extremists behind 17 percent of incidents
By Agencies
Illustrative: Germany's antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein, second from right, and Rabbi Gesa Ederberg, right, listen to the testimonies of Ukrainian Jewish youths at Berlin's Jewish International school in Berlin on March 24, 2022. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
March 31, 2022, 10:59 am
Ukraine’s Jews find ‘remarkable’ refuge in Germany, 77 years after the Holocaust
Thousands of Ukrainian Jewish refugees have fled fighitng for German safety; local community chief says Berlin has ‘taken on its historic obligations’
By Yannick Pasquet
Illustrative: A man protests coronavirus restrictions with a yellow star and a photo of Anne Frank outside the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. (@ZSKberlin/Twitter via JTA)
May 11, 2021, 6:01 am
Germany wants ban on wearing yellow star to protest pandemic lockdowns
Antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein says those wearing symbol with word ‘unvaccinated’ on it trivialize the Holocaust
By Toby Axelrod
Felix Klein, the German government's first-ever special envoy to the Jewish community, at the 'Berlin wears a kippah' protest, April 25, 2018 (courtesy BMI)
April 7, 2020, 6:52 pm
Germany warns of spike in anti-Semitism linked to virus
Government czar notes ‘boom’ in cycling of conspiracy theories, including one claim that pandemic is result of a failed bioweapon test by Israeli secret service
By AFP
Illustrative: A man wears a kippah at a demonstration against an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 19, 2019, 7:25 pm
American Jewish tourist hurt in anti-Semitic Berlin attack
23-year-old says he was beaten after group asked if he was Jewish
By ToI Staff
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speak to media prior to a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin on May 31, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
May 31, 2019, 2:03 pm
In Germany, Pompeo voices concern over kippa warning to Jews
‘None of us should shrink in the face of prejudice,’ says US secretary of state after local anti-Semitism czar cautions against wearing yarmulkes
By AFP
Felix Klein, the German government's first-ever special envoy to the Jewish community, at the 'Berlin wears a kippah' protest, April 25, 2018 (courtesy BMI)
May 28, 2019, 11:23 pm
Anti-Semitism czar asks Germans to wear kippa publicly in solidarity with Jews
After uproar over advice not to wear skullcap in certain areas, Felix Klein calls on citizens to sport Jewish headgear on Saturday when protests expected for Al-Quds Day
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: June 10, 2014, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, a man wears a kippa with the flags of Germany and Israel. (Frank Rumpenhorst / dpa / AFP)
May 28, 2019, 7:07 pm
German envoy to Israel: Rise in anti-Semitism threatens cohesion of our society
‘We all regret that these fantastic Jewish institutions and schools have to be protected,’ Ambassador Susanne Wasum-Rainer tells Times of Israel. ‘But that’s our responsibility’
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative - Emoji use on a smartphone. (Mlindri, Getty Images)
May 28, 2019, 2:18 pm
European rabbis want Jewish emojis with kippot
Judaism should have equal representation, Conference of European Rabbis urges international emoji-regulating body
By Paul Shindman
President Reuven Rivlin (R) and Israel's ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman (L) take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the 'Gleis 17' (platform 17) memorial of the deportation of Jews from Berlin to concentration camps at the Grunewald railway station in Berlin on May 11, 2015. Photo credit: Odd Andersen/AFP)
May 26, 2019, 1:07 pm
After kippa warning, Rivlin urges Berlin: Avoid defeatist response to Jew hatred
President says Israel will never submit to anti-Semitism, will ‘demand our allies act in the same way,’ after German anti-Semitism czar warns Jews against wearing kippa in public
By Raphael Ahren
Members of German hard rock band Rammstein dressed as concentration camp inmates standing on a gallows, in a video for a new single released March 26, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)
March 28, 2019, 12:35 pm
German band Rammstein blasted for concentration camp video
Jewish groups, government anti-Semitism official criticize as ‘tasteless’ hard rock band’s promotion video featuring members as Jewish inmates
By AFP
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