Germany is rethinking its approach to combating anti-Semitism after a protest against President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital turned the anti-Jewish prejudices of some Muslim immigrants into a national issue, the Religion News website reports today (January 10, 2018).
In the month since immigrants burned an Israeli flag at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and chanted anti-Semitic slogans, politicians have proposed appointing a federal commissioner on hate crimes against Jews.
Members of the German parliament are in the process of passing a resolution calling for migrants who promote hatred of Jews to be expelled.
"Whoever rejects Jewish life in Germany or questions Israel's right to exist can have no place in our country," the draft resolution says.
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