Hanover, Germany – The leader of Germany’s Jewish community, Charlotte Knobloch, warned Thursday of a dangerous new brand of anti-Semitism after an attack on a group of Jewish dancers at a festival.
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
Youths in the northern city of Hanover threw rocks Saturday at the dancers from the group Chaverim (“Friends” in Hebrew) and shouted “Juden Raus!” (Jews Out), police said. Many of the assailants were reportedly of Arab origin.
One female dancer suffered a slight injury to her leg, leading the troupe to call off the performance.
Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the newspaper Die Welt that the incident “points to a new societal challenge that has clearly emerged in recent weeks”.
She said she had the impression that anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli sentiment was “widespread” not just among the far-right but also in Germany’s Muslim community.
“It particularly saddens me that those anti-Semitic views can already be seen with such vehemence among children and youths,” she said.
Hanover Mayor Stephan Weil, quoted in the same article, called the attack “unacceptable” and said his city had filed charges of incitement of racial hatred and grievous bodily harm.
A police spokesman told AFP that authorities had identified two suspects, a 14-year-old German and a 19-year-old North African, but said they had no indication of a direct political motive linked to the Middle East conflict.
In mid-May, vandals mounted an arson attack against a synagogue in Worms, western Germany but the fire brigade was able to extinguish the blaze so the building was not damaged.
A letter in broken German claiming responsibility stated: “Until you leave the Palestinians alone, we won’t leave you alone.”
isn’t this the same woman who is organizing the german flotilla? Can anyone get her e-mail address?
Anyone shocked by this?
The Muslims and Nazis are pals for a long time now, from the time when the grand mufti of Jerusalem partnered with Hitler and mobilzed Muslim troops to help out with the “final solution”.
And for all you anti Zionists, that was before the Jewish state existed.
Despicable, YES
New brand of anti-Semitism, NO. Nothing new about moslems throwing rocks at Jews, unfortunately!
” no indication of a direct political motive linked to the Middle East conflict.” spoken by a true idiot Police Spokesman, especially when combined with the words JUDEN RAUS.
how came you dont ever hear of jew attacking muslims etc anywhere in the world.? my question is not a question, its an answer. you islamists are barbarians as stated ‘vehu yiyah perah adom.’..and you proove it all obver the globe, you even kill each other all over africa, shite vs sunnuni etc
Now we have nazi arabs in the rich same germens
what a shame …modest muslim goim throwing rockes at imodest jewish girl dancers
The real reason is, Hashem does not want Jewish girls dancing in immodest outfits in front of men and especially not on Shabbos. If you connect the dots, the abuse the frum world gets in Israel from the non religios and in this forum bashing them here, are all related to how the world will attack Jews everywhere. Think about it, we are all in the same boat!
I guess assimilation into German culture STILL isn’t quite working out!? What part of the Holocaust did we fail to understand?
No surprise! “Eisav soneh es Yaakov”