**Since the October 7 massacre, Germany has seen an upsurge in anti-Semitic acts. The authorities’ unconditional support for Israel either reassures or frustrates the many Israelis living in the German capital.**
Wolf, a variant of Wolfsberg, is the name Shuli Aviad chose when she changed her surname on her taxi app. This fear reflex has become widespread among Israelis in Berlin since the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre and the subsequent spike in anti-Semitic acts.
In her apartment in Prenzlauer Berg, Aviad hastily recalled everything she has experienced since that date. The horror of the videos, the constant exchanges with her family in Israel, the feeling of being mentally there. The new anxiety felt in Germany too. It was as if everything had to be recounted, very quickly, for fear of getting lost in the intensity of those tragic moments and the reminiscences of her family’s past. “Now, I avoid speaking Hebrew to my children in the street. I’ve thought about changing our name on the doorbell on the ground floor. It’s terrifying; we feel what my grandparents must have felt. Even in the third generation, we all have this deep-seated fear that it could happen again. Yet, paradoxically, I think we’re in one of the safest cities in the world for Jews. I’d rather be here than in London or the United States.”
Aviad, who arrived here 10 years ago with her husband, a technology entrepreneur, is not the only one to feel this staggering paradox among Israelis living in the German capital. Rotem von Oppenheim, who has lived here since 2015, avoids certain neighborhoods with her children. She has also changed her name on her taxi app but has still offered to move her parents into the family apartment temporarily. “They refuse, despite the sirens in Tel Aviv,” she said. “I can’t imagine going back to Israel myself, I feel more at home here.”
>we all have this deep-seated fear that it could happen again.
For the Gazans, it *is* happening
When you conflate supporting a ceasefire and stopping a genocide with antisemitism, then of course you get spooked. People asking for a ceasefire and hating Zionists aren’t hating on Jewish people, simple as that. It is absurd to conflate the two, and done only out of ignorance or bad faith.
I support every Israeli who opposes levelling and occupying their neighbour’s land and killing innocent people in the name of self defence or war. Is my support anti-semitic?
Arabs and Israelis genetically share the same ancestors, so they’re essentially brothers. Is this ?
I’m sorry but the article states after the attacks on the 7th the anti-semitism started. But really it seemed the anti-semitism really started when Israel started killing thousands of Palestinian civilians and cutting off water and electricity to millions. Even killing journalists and Doctors Without Borders. It’s weird cause it’s like pretending that this anger is coming out of a vacuum? No it’s not.
Antisemitism did not “start” October 7. It was there before but more quiet. Now people can be more vocal about it and became “en vogue” to openly position yourself as one.
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Nice deflection lately. Bots working full time to play victim while genocide ongoing. That being said absolutely no jewish person should feel threatened for something they arent part of.
I was in Berlin last month and the antiterrorist squad raided houses for organising pro-Palestine rallies and a bar for having posters saying: “There’s no freedom for women without the freedom of Palestine”
Next day, the police comments were: “There are many views about the Palestine matter but those don’t have a space in our democracy”
Those are the antisemitic acts they are talking about? This is the state of democracy in Germany, maybe the whole of Europe.
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love how a bunch of terrorists have fans and those fans start hating jews cause “reasons”
They could always try the West bank. Lovely this time of year.
Antisemitism was bring back to Germany by migrants.
The amount of people *low-key* justifying the murder of hundreds of jews and the acts of a sovereign nation… Insane. Antisemitism was never gone, but the left and the imported antisemitism are out for blood. Jews are apparently not safe from any political spectrum.
Edit: Downvote me for all I care, you goons. An entire group of people doesn’t feel safe in Europe anymore. That’s the truth. Like it or not.
Germany, here we go again!
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Anti israel ≠ anti-semitic.
Take a stand against a country that is actively committing a genocide= antisemitism. Bro, nobody cares because you pray to a certain god, people hate you because you are murders
Russians in Berlin fear losing a safe haven as Russophobic acts rise
(following Russia’s war crimes)
Wonder why
Maybe us Jews should try empathize with the thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Concentration Camp.
Treating anyone differently because of their race, religion, or ethnicity is inexcusable, whether it’s happening to Jews (of which I am one) or Palestinians. Both are bad.
Well its kinda expected, no?
Why did Berliners decide to be antisemitic all of a sudden, out of nothing?
Everyone should be able to feel safe, Israelis and Palestinians alike
Man these guys probably shouldn’t have aggressively pushed for mass Muslim immigration to Europe for decades huh? Seems like that golem really turned itself around on these fellows
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**Since the October 7 massacre, Germany has seen an upsurge in anti-Semitic acts. The authorities’ unconditional support for Israel either reassures or frustrates the many Israelis living in the German capital.**
Wolf, a variant of Wolfsberg, is the name Shuli Aviad chose when she changed her surname on her taxi app. This fear reflex has become widespread among Israelis in Berlin since the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre and the subsequent spike in anti-Semitic acts.
In her apartment in Prenzlauer Berg, Aviad hastily recalled everything she has experienced since that date. The horror of the videos, the constant exchanges with her family in Israel, the feeling of being mentally there. The new anxiety felt in Germany too. It was as if everything had to be recounted, very quickly, for fear of getting lost in the intensity of those tragic moments and the reminiscences of her family’s past. “Now, I avoid speaking Hebrew to my children in the street. I’ve thought about changing our name on the doorbell on the ground floor. It’s terrifying; we feel what my grandparents must have felt. Even in the third generation, we all have this deep-seated fear that it could happen again. Yet, paradoxically, I think we’re in one of the safest cities in the world for Jews. I’d rather be here than in London or the United States.”
Aviad, who arrived here 10 years ago with her husband, a technology entrepreneur, is not the only one to feel this staggering paradox among Israelis living in the German capital. Rotem von Oppenheim, who has lived here since 2015, avoids certain neighborhoods with her children. She has also changed her name on her taxi app but has still offered to move her parents into the family apartment temporarily. “They refuse, despite the sirens in Tel Aviv,” she said. “I can’t imagine going back to Israel myself, I feel more at home here.”
**Read the full article here:** [**https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/01/17/israelis-in-berlin-fear-losing-a-safe-haven_6439269_4.html**](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/01/17/israelis-in-berlin-fear-losing-a-safe-haven_6439269_4.html)
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>we all have this deep-seated fear that it could happen again.
For the Gazans, it *is* happening
When you conflate supporting a ceasefire and stopping a genocide with antisemitism, then of course you get spooked. People asking for a ceasefire and hating Zionists aren’t hating on Jewish people, simple as that. It is absurd to conflate the two, and done only out of ignorance or bad faith.
I support every Israeli who opposes levelling and occupying their neighbour’s land and killing innocent people in the name of self defence or war. Is my support anti-semitic?
Arabs and Israelis genetically share the same ancestors, so they’re essentially brothers. Is this ?
I’m sorry but the article states after the attacks on the 7th the anti-semitism started. But really it seemed the anti-semitism really started when Israel started killing thousands of Palestinian civilians and cutting off water and electricity to millions. Even killing journalists and Doctors Without Borders. It’s weird cause it’s like pretending that this anger is coming out of a vacuum? No it’s not.
Antisemitism did not “start” October 7. It was there before but more quiet. Now people can be more vocal about it and became “en vogue” to openly position yourself as one.
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Nice deflection lately. Bots working full time to play victim while genocide ongoing. That being said absolutely no jewish person should feel threatened for something they arent part of.
I was in Berlin last month and the antiterrorist squad raided houses for organising pro-Palestine rallies and a bar for having posters saying: “There’s no freedom for women without the freedom of Palestine”
Next day, the police comments were: “There are many views about the Palestine matter but those don’t have a space in our democracy”
Those are the antisemitic acts they are talking about? This is the state of democracy in Germany, maybe the whole of Europe.
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love how a bunch of terrorists have fans and those fans start hating jews cause “reasons”
They could always try the West bank. Lovely this time of year.
Antisemitism was bring back to Germany by migrants.
The amount of people *low-key* justifying the murder of hundreds of jews and the acts of a sovereign nation… Insane. Antisemitism was never gone, but the left and the imported antisemitism are out for blood. Jews are apparently not safe from any political spectrum.
Edit: Downvote me for all I care, you goons. An entire group of people doesn’t feel safe in Europe anymore. That’s the truth. Like it or not.
Germany, here we go again!
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Anti israel ≠ anti-semitic.
Take a stand against a country that is actively committing a genocide= antisemitism. Bro, nobody cares because you pray to a certain god, people hate you because you are murders
Russians in Berlin fear losing a safe haven as Russophobic acts rise
(following Russia’s war crimes)
Wonder why
Maybe us Jews should try empathize with the thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Concentration Camp.
Treating anyone differently because of their race, religion, or ethnicity is inexcusable, whether it’s happening to Jews (of which I am one) or Palestinians. Both are bad.
Well its kinda expected, no?
Why did Berliners decide to be antisemitic all of a sudden, out of nothing?
Everyone should be able to feel safe, Israelis and Palestinians alike
Man these guys probably shouldn’t have aggressively pushed for mass Muslim immigration to Europe for decades huh? Seems like that golem really turned itself around on these fellows