{"id":177842,"date":"2019-05-25T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/25\/history-is-rhyming-again-2\/"},"modified":"2019-05-25T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T03:15:00","slug":"history-is-rhyming-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/25\/history-is-rhyming-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History is Rhyming Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Jews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/26\/jews-in-germany-warned-of-risks-of-wearing-kippah-cap-in-public\">have been warned by the commissioner on antisemitism not to wear yarmulkes in public<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Germany\u2019s government commissioner on antisemitism has warned Jews about the potential dangers of wearing the traditional kippah cap in the face of rising anti-Jewish attacks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI cannot advise Jews to wear the kippah everywhere all the time in Germany,\u201d Felix Klein said in an interview published Saturday by the Funke regional press group.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In issuing the warning, he said he had \u201calas, changed my mind (on the subject) compared to previously\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Klein, whose post was created last year, cited \u201cthe lifting of inhibitions and the uncouthness which is on the rise in society\u201d as factors behind a rising incidence of antisemitism.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe internet and social media have largely contributed to this, but so have constant attacks against our culture of remembrance.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">And he suggested police, teachers and lawyers should be better trained to recognise what constitutes \u201cclearly defined\u201d unacceptable behaviour and \u201cwhat is authorised and what is not\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">His comments came just weeks after Berlin\u2019s top legal expert on antisemitism said the issue remains entrenched in German society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Antisemitic crimes rose by 20% in Germany last year, according to interior ministry data which blamed nine out of ten cases on the extreme right.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Humanity, in all its splendor, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Jews have been warned by the commissioner on antisemitism not to wear yarmulkes in public: Germany\u2019s government commissioner on antisemitism has warned Jews about the potential dangers of wearing the traditional kippah cap in the face of rising anti-Jewish attacks. \u201cI cannot advise Jews to wear the kippah everywhere all the time in Germany,\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[546,371,389,650],"class_list":["post-177842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-europe","tag-history","tag-irony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}