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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

German refugee crisis

Bjöern Höecke, top candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, speaks at an election campaign rally in Suhl, Germany, August 13, 2024. (AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber)
September 1, 2024, 11:48 pm
Far-right German AfD party set to win first state elections
Projections show Alternative for Germany party winning in Thuringia and coming in close second in Saxony, as immigration and German support of Ukraine dominate agenda
By Geir Moulson
People place flowers near the scene of a knife attack in Solingen city center, Germany, August 24, 2024. (Henning Kaiser/ dpa via AP)
August 26, 2024, 8:12 pm
Stabbing in Germany’s Solingen fuels bitter debate on immigration
Some locals fear attack that killed 3 people will increase support for far-right parties, while others say incident demonstrates asylum policy must change
By Sam Reeves
Refugees aboard a blue rubber dinghy soon to be picked up by the Ocean Viking, August 2019. (Hannah Wallace Bowman/SOS Mediterranee)
September 21, 2019, 3:10 am
In Germany, Jewish funds help keep Mediterranean migrant rescue missions afloat
As thousands flee Africa on flimsy boats, just one ship operates in the area between Libya and Italy. A Jewish aid group is partnering up with others to help its operators
By Yaakov Schwartz
Riot police cross the street as a city festival is cancelled on August 26, 2018 in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, after a 35-year-old German national dies in hospital following a 'dispute between several people of different nationalities,' according to the police. (AFP Photo/dpa/Andreas Seidel)
August 29, 2018, 9:04 pm
Saxony police under fire after German far-right mob violence
Officers said to leak secret information to extremist groups, helping spark ‘pogrom-like’ protest in Chemnitz where extremists hunted down immigrants in the streets
By Frank Zeller
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the German Chancellor give a joint statement on August 18, 2018 at Schloss Meseberg castle in Meseberg, Germany. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwartz)
August 19, 2018, 1:33 am
Putin calls on Europe to rebuild Syria so that refugees can return
Meeting with the Russian president, Germany’s Merkel says the priority in Syria is ‘to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe’
By AFP
In This May 17, 2017 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to the mayor of the western German town of Altona, Andreas Hollstein, center, during the award ceremony for the German national integration prize. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)
November 28, 2017, 2:37 pm
German mayor: Assailant attacked me over pro-refugee stance
Knife attack on Andreas Hollstein, 54, prompts shock and condemnation from officials including Chancellor Angela Merkel
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Illustrative: German police (AFP Photo/dpa/Jens Büttner)
November 23, 2017, 12:05 am
Lacking evidence, Germany releases Syrian terror suspects
Authorities say six arrested in raids across country Tuesday still thought to have ties to Islamic State
By AP
Karl Lagerfeld (YouTube screenshot)
November 14, 2017, 5:38 am
Citing Holocaust, Karl Lagerfeld says Germany is taking in Jews’ worst enemies
‘You cannot kill millions of Jews, then take in millions of their worst enemies afterwards,’ fashion designer tells French talk show, eliciting hundreds of complaints
By ToI Staff
Senegalese-born German MP for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Karamba Diaby puts up a campaign poster in Halle on September 6, 2017. (AFP/ John MACDOUGALL)
September 18, 2017, 4:32 am
In election battle, eastern Germany’s first black MP fights hate
Senegalese-born Karamba Diaby, 55, , faces a surge of racist and incendiary speech online for seeking re-election
By Yannick Pasquet
Illustrative photo of refugees waiting for registration outside the state office for health and social issues in Berlin, Germany, on September 25 2015. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)
February 26, 2017, 5:32 pm
Nearly 10 anti-migrant attacks a day in Germany in 2016
Anger over Merkel’s asylum policy has led to increase in violence against refugees, support for right-wing party, data shows
By AFP
Sigmar Gabriel (CC-BY DavidG, Wikipedia )
January 7, 2017, 8:08 pm
German vice chancellor calls for ban of Salafist mosques
Urging crackdown on fundamentalist Muslim communities, Sigmar Gabriel says religious freedoms do not extend to ‘those who encourage violence’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative image of a woman with a headscarf walking past the entrance to the Fatih Camii Mosque in Dresden, eastern Germany, where traces of smoke can be seen after a bomb attack, September 27, 2016. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa/AFP)
December 9, 2016, 12:22 pm
German police detain suspect in Dresden mosque attack
29-year-old linked to xenophobic PEGIDA movement had railed against ‘criminal foreigners’ and ‘lazy Africans’
By AFP
Hans-Georg Maassen, head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, photographed in Berlin, November 30, 2016. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
December 8, 2016, 5:43 pm
Russia aims to ‘destabilize Germany,’ Berlin says
Head of domestic intelligence cites ‘growing evidence’ Moscow already attempting to influence 2017 elections
By Frank Jordans
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a press conference on July 23, 2016 at the Chancellery in Berlin, one day after the attack at the shopping centre in Munich, southern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ)
November 20, 2016, 4:12 pm
Merkel tells party she’ll seek fourth term as chancellor
German leader, in power since 2005, announces she will run for re-election in 2017
By Deborah Cole
Middle Eastern refugees and IsraAID staff and volunteers at a picnic in a Berlin park, summer 2016. Hillel Zand is in the lower left corner. (Hillel Zand)
November 19, 2016, 11:18 pm
What Muslim refugees in Berlin taught me about being a mensch
Working with IsraAID in the German capital for a summer, an American college student learns from those fleeing Mideast carnage how to be a Jew, a Zionist and a human being
By Hillel Zand
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