Parliament president: Anti-Semitism rise in Germany a disgrace
STORY: “Five anti-Semitic crimes are registered on average every day in Germany. Memorial sites are being desecrated, Jewish installations and synagogues are being attacked, people are met with hostility and they are being threatened and attacked because they are Jewish,” said Bas during a ceremony attended by the entire German political elite.
Bas told lawmakers and Holocaust survivors gathered on the visitors’ gallery that “no one must turn a blind eye. Anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia are definitely not just present at the very edge.”
She mentioned last year’s renowned documenta art exhibit which led to an international outcry after an Indonesian artists’ collective exhibited a work showing a soldier with the face of a pig and wearing a helmet reading “Mossad” in reference to Israel’s intelligence agency.
