Andrea Wedner was the government’s last witness as prosecutors wrapped up their case against Robert Bowers, who in 2018 burst into the Tree of Life synagogue building with a military-style rifle and other weaponry and opened fire, shooting anyone he could find.
The Hardship Fund Supplemental payment was originally established to be a one-time payment, negotiated during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and eventually resulted in three supplemental payments for eligible Holocaust survivors. This year, Germany again agreed to extend the hardship payment, which was set to end in December 2023, through 2027.
Miguel Moratinos, the UN's point man on antisemitism, is pushing for a more lenient definition, along with far left-wing Israeli groups.
The State Department says that the artist has long history of denigrating Jews.
Ahead of the concert, several Jewish groups, politicians and an alliance of civil society groups gather for a memorial ceremony and a protest rally against the event. Demonstration comes in response to Waters' Berlin concert, where he donned a Nazi-like uniform.
"Is there anything more antisemitic than using Anne Frank as a prop on a German stage while prancing around in a Nazi uniform attacking Jews?", the European Jewish Congress tweets after event.
Sucharit Bhakdi previously described Israel as worse than Nazi Germany and said that "the terrible thing about Jews is: They learn well."
The Twitter owner’s post led to a “flood” of antisemitic conspiracy theories on the social media platform, Foreign Ministry Director of Digital Diplomacy David Saranga says.
“The contributions of Jewish Americans are shadowed by a long and painful history of the oldest and most sinister forces, hate and antisemitism,” the 46th president said at White House event, talking about how he learned of the horrors of the Holocaust from his father and how it has motivated him to speak out against hate.
According to the Ruderman Family Foundation, The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism revealed that it was forming a committee that will work to ensure that the state "recognizes its obligation to officially memorialize non-Israeli Jews from around the world who were murdered explicitly for being Jewish."