Chancellor Friedrich Mertz promised to offer protection to Jewish lifestyles in Germany from expanding hostility and assaults. “We will do everything in our power to consistently fight anti-Semitism in all its new and old faces,” the CDU president mentioned on the Prize for Working out and Tolerance rite on the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
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Germany can even stand via Israel, “whose right to exist is still being questioned more and more on the German streets”, the chancellor confident.
On the identical time, it should be transparent in any respect ranges of society that the battle towards anti-Semitism is the duty of everybody in society. “If the Jews who have their home here in Germany say today that they are beginning to fear for their homeland, that they are afraid of being evicted again, then we need a clear response of everyday solidarity and civic courage,” Mertz mentioned.
This 12 months, the Jewish Museum in Berlin awarded the prize for figuring out and tolerance to former US ambassador to Germany Amy Guttman and Israeli physicist Daniel Seifman.
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