Germans Rally to Protest Anti-Semitism Over Gaza War

In The New York Times, Melissa Eddy reports, “Thousands of Germans, many wrapped in Israeli flags, gathered at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate on Sunday for a rally against anti-Semitism, which has flared up in Europe following Israel’s invasion of Gaza.”German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, “It’s our national and civic duty to fight anti-Semitism.” For the first time, the World Jewish Congress opens its annual conference in Berlin on Monday in order to mark “the rebirth of Jewish life” since the fall of the Berlin wall.

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