Berlin Archbishop Urges Next City Government to Make Fight Against Antisemitism a Priority

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Jews in Berlin no longer dare to show their identity openly. Archbishop Heiner Koch calls on the future government to act against anti-Semitism. He would also like to see this enshrined in the Constitution.

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The Berlin Archbishop Heiner Koch described the situation of Jews in the capital as worrying. It was a "great scandal" that Jews no longer dared "to speak in the underground Ivrit or to carry the Kippa in public", said Koch of the "Rheinische Post" (Monday edition). Especially touch him that Jews thought "to go or return to Israel because it is safer for them". "I see the efforts of the security forces, but that - I fear - cannot turn the mood. …