jewish communities so too is the recent influx of muslim immigrants a recent study by the american jewish committee documents widespread anti-semitism amongst them in one widely reported incident last year a jewish pupil the grandson of holocaust survivors quit his berlin high school after suffering mobbing and abuse at the hands of arab and turkish classmates living in fear how anti-semitic is germany that's our topic this week on quadriga and here are our guests it's a pleasure to welcome kristen hell back she's a freelance journalist who recently wrote a book about syrian refugees in germany and the fears and prejudices they evoke she says germany needs a more inclusive memorial culture and more backbone in the fight against all. all forms of marginalization and we're very pleased to have alan posner on the show once again he's a commentator for the daily newspaper devoted he says jews everywhere are held responsible for every bring real or imagined injustice perpetrated by israel and finally very glad to welcome. to the show he's the director of human rights watch and he has experienced the pro

right i'm happy to welcome back to the big table deja burger she is the director of the american jewish committee here in berlin teachers good to have you back on the show. let me just get your take on the u.s. vice president israel what do you make of his of his visit it was important to move the discussion forward i think it's important for the united states to show israel that you know the u.s. stands behind israel and protests notwithstanding that president trump is not going back on his decision image of president trump it is vice president pence not president trump who is making this visit and he's going there delivering the message that he's speaking for the president there what message does that send that the u.s. president can is not there in person i mean this decision is not a small reminder decision movie the embassy to jerusalem yes the president trump has been in israel quite recently and i think it was an important signal that shortly after the president's visit the vice president has now come i think this is a sign of diplomatic attention at the highest level and a sign of the imp

jewish communities so too is the recent influx of muslim immigrants a recent study by the american jewish committee quit his berlin high school after suffering mobbing and abuse at the hands of turkish classmates living in fear how anti-semitic is germans in germany and the fears and prejudices they evoke she says germany needs a more inclusive memorial culture and more backbone in the fight against all forms of marginalization and we're very pleased to have alan posner on the show once again he's a commentator for the daily newspaper he says jews everywhere are held responsible for every real or imagined injustice perpetrated by israel and finally very glad to welcome. you to. the show he's the director of human rights watch and he has experienced the problem we're talking about first hand he says anti-semitism in germany is escalating and increasingly normalized and the state is responding too slowly. it was indeed your son who suffered the abuse that i referred to at the opening of the show would you tell us a little bit about what happened there. yeah he was new at the school and at the end of

jewish communities so too is the recent influx of muslim immigrants a recent study by the american jewish committee documents widespread anti-semitism amongst them in one widely reported incident last year a jewish pupil the grandson of holocaust survivors quit his berlin high school after suffering mobbing and abuse at the hands of arab and turkish classmates living in fear how anti-semitic is germany that's our topic this week on quadriga and here are our guests it's a pleasure to welcome kristen hell back she's a freelance journalist who recently wrote a book about syrian refugees in germany and the fears and prejudices they evoke she says germany needs a more inclusive no more. culture and more backbone in the fight against all forms of marginalization and we're very pleased to have alan posner on the show once again he's a commentator for the daily newspaper he says jews everywhere are held responsible for every real or imagined injustice perpetrated by israel and finally very glad to welcome them so mikulski to the show he's the director of human rights watch and he has experienced the proble

in recent report from the american jewish committee that i mentioned earlier documents some pretty egregiousxpressions of anti-semitism among arab immigrants in germany. thatopening statement says backbone is needed but what kind of backbone is needed here in this case? our arab immigrants who have come i in the past couple of yes part of the reason we are seeing this trend toward greater intolerance? kristin: there is a great problem of anti-semitism among arab or turkish and stars. i agree. we have to make an important difference between people who were born here or second and third generation who were raised here and into to german school and should have learned some political roles and some understanding of germans not only concerning anti-semitism that what has been written in the german constitution that no end should be privileged or neglected for his religious -- for his religion or ethnic background. the other story is refugees that have come here in the past two years from syria for example. politicalthere is a problem with israel. until now, israel has been occupying the syrian go

he was an earn for the american jewish committee in west chester new york.oke to william's supervisor a fellow penn alumnus. >> i know he was excited. it was something we shared in common that he was going to penn my alma mater. i was happy to have him as my intern and sort of be fostering a future penn student. >> reporter: the other passengers on board were the weiss family confirmed to the associated press by the family's rabbi. he says hannah weiss died in the crash along with her and parents and her brother ari. property records so the weiss family lived in the philadelphia area until 2004 with properties listed in plymouth meeting lafayette hill and norristown. now the university of pennsylvania has yet to put out a statement confirming that william steinberg was a student there. as for the cause of the crash that is still under investigation. reporting live in the sat center, trish hartman channel6 "action news." jim. >> thank you, trish. >>> of course the world news tonight with david muir will have more on the investigation into the crash. that is n

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apply these same guidelines to american jews who are members of jewish voice for peace and to mainstream peace activists from groups like the american friends service committee the quakers who saved jews saved thousands of jews during world war two and are now an official target of the israeli state that's was pretty incredible too when you look at some of the groups on this list like you mentioned you know your code pink is on this list of the quakers the breakers. these are like you know hardened criminals that you don't want entering your society these are people who just simply disagree with what you're doing and there's a lot of people in this world that do do that what do you see is going to be the result of all this you know long game how is this going to play out your mind works israel is no longer going to be perceived as the only democracy in the middle east i mean it isn't already there's tunisia and other countries but that deve the image of israel is going to suffer massively it already is and we saw david rothkopf yesterday in haaretz this is the publisher of of foreign policy magazine one of the most mainstream foreign policy minds in washingt

american council of churches and the american jewish congress and the aflcio and the naacp, the new orleans women's center and the american friends service committee, the women's peace movement, prolabor anti-war folk singers like pete seager, et cetera, et cetera and sometimes these organizations are investigated for decades. these are not violent revolutionary threats but rather political dissidents that oppose certain aspects of u.s. government policy and they do through so through specific means protected under the constitution. as we noted in our class on free speech, not so much at the turn of the century. politic political spying began around 1908 and 1908 and ran until 1924 and stopped for a decade, known as the first red scare. after the november of 1918, when the first world war came to an end, 1919 sees a number of actions that will raise a lot of concern about government surveillance. the seattle general strike in 1919 shuts down that city. tens of thousands of workers go on strike. in the spring of 1919, a bomb plot is broken up. there is a wave of bombings in the summer. anarchist bombings targeting prominent people, the attorney gen

whose members will be banned from entering israel are jewish voice for peace, national students for justice in palestine, american friends service committee, american muslims for palestine, codepink, and the u.s. campaign for palestinian rights, as well as palestinian solidarity groups in france, italy, norway, sweden, britain, chile, and south africa. in response, the director of the u.s. campaign for palestinian rights, yousef munayyer, said -- "when israel, which aims to portray itself to the world as liberal and democratic, blacklists activists dedicated to nonviolent organizing and dissent, it only further exposes itself as s a fraud." meanwhile, multiple news outlets are reporting that the trump administration has frozen $125 million in funding for the u.n. agency that provides humanitarian aid to palestinians. the united nations relief and work agency provides critical educational and health services in the gaza strip. last week, president trump threateneded to cut off u.s. funding to the agency, tweeting -- "with the palestinians no longer willing to talk peace why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?" the

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