Thomas de Maiziere the caretaker minister since the inconclusive September election spoke to bild am Sonntag newspaper days after protesters in Berlin burnt Israeli flags to protest the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital
He stated that “Every criminal act motivated by anti-Semitism is one too many and a shame for our country, anti-Semitism must never again take hold in Germany” also pointing to a rise of “derogatory remarks, inappropriate jokes and discriminatory behavior against our Jewish citizens”
Germany should appoint an anti-Semitism commissioner to counter growing hate speech against Jews and Israel from both its home-grown far right and the immigrant community, the interior minister said Sunday.
Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said last week that, although Berlin opposed the move by US President Donald Trump, it strongly condemned protests where “hatred” of Israel and Jews was expressed and condemned the recent flag burning as “the symbolic destruction of a county’s right to exist’’
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