A year after an anti-Semite tried to carry out a massacre at a synagogue in Halle, Germany, the country marked October 9 as the national day of solidarity with Jewish.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned the rising anti-Semitism in the official state ceremony for the two people who died in the attack and warned that this development was a danger to democracy.
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A senior security official in Germany also warned this week that there is an alarming spike in anti-Jewish incidents and said the community is justifiably worried.
Just last week, a young Jew was assaulted in Germany near a synagogue in Hamburg. Local police had to intervene.
The Jewish rapper Ben Salomo recently released a protest song to highlight the dire situation of Jews in Germany. It is dedicated to the grandparents of the current generation living in the country, who had had an illusion of a "new" Germany and settled there following the Holocaust.
"If things don't change, there is little chance that Jewish life will survive over the coming years," he told Israel Hayom. "Without real change, Jews won't have a future here; the Germans have to stop using us as a means of confronting their past and start treating us seriously, and cater to our needs and to our opinions.
"The German government uses Jews to bolster the country's image rather than as a group that really needs to be listened to and understood, and this includes our relationship as Jews with Israel. Rather, the German Foreign Ministry has been funding groups allegedly linked to terrorism and anti-Semitism. Jewish blood is once again tainting German money, and this angers me very much."
According to Salomo, "Germany has become a recycling bin for anti-Semitism and the German media is carrying out a key role in this phenomenon, with the German government sending millions to anti-Semitic organizations."
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