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BERLIN, Sept 15 — Chancellor Angela Merkel today spoke of her “shame” over rising anti-Semitism in Germany as the Jewish community warned the coronavirus was acting as a “catalyst” stirring up anti-Jewish hatred. “It is true that racism and anti-Semitism never disappeared. But for...

The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein had warned in April that hatred against Jews was spreading in Germany. — Reuters pic

The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein had warned in April that hatred against Jews was spreading in Germany along with the new coronavirus. Schuster denounced some protesters for co-opting a symbol of the Holocaust—yellow stars similar to those Jews were forced to wear under the Nazis—to represent their claimed oppression by virus restrictions.

 

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