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Lipstadt: Antisemitism Not Taken Seriously Until Deadly
Antisemitism is often not taken seriously until it becomes deadly, Deborah
Lipstadt, the Holocaust scholar who is the State Department’s antisemitism mon-
itor, said on May 12, JTA reported.

Lipstadt chose the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for her first talk since her
Senate confirmation in March after contentious hearings.

She made good on her pledges to skeptical Republicans in the body that she
would identify and target antisemitism on all sides.

“Antisemitism does not come from one end of the political spectrum,” Lipstadt
said. “It is ubiquitous and is espoused by people who agree on nothing else or,
better put, disagree on everything else.”
She spoke of the threat from the far-right, mentioning the 2017 neo-Nazi march
in Charlottesville that convinced President Joe Biden, who named her to the post,
to run for the presidency. But she also alluded to her frustrations with the left.

German Police Find Antisemitic Material in Home of
Teen Allegedly Planning Terror Attack
German police found explosives and antisemitic, far-right literature at the
home of a teenager they suspect of planning a terrorist attack at a school, JTA
reported. Officers took the 16-year-old suspect, who was not named, into custody on May
12, the Tagesschau news site reported. Police said he is suspected of planning to
bomb a high school in Essen, a city about 250 miles west of Berlin.

Separately, German police are investigating a suspected arson at a Jewish
cemetery near Cologne. Both incidents closely followed the release of a report
indicating a 28% rise in antisemitic hate crimes in 2021.

In the incident in Cologne on May 11, an unidentified person poured a flamma-
ble substance on the wall around the Jewish cemetery of Bocklemünd, Rundschau
Online reported. Police are investigating whether the incident was an antisemitic
hate crime, the report said.

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Lufthansa Apologizes for Expelling ‘Large Group’ of
Chasidic Jews From Flight
Lufthansa apologized for kicking identifiably Jewish people off a flight from New
York City to Budapest after some Chasidic individuals had reportedly not worn
masks on the flight’s first leg, New York Jewish Week reported.

Lufthansa said in a statement on May 10 that it “regrets the circumstances sur-
rounding the decision to exclude the affected passengers from the flight.”
The statement said that the airline was still reviewing the incident and regretted
that “the large group was denied boarding rather than limiting it to the non-com-
pliant guests.”
The group referenced was 100-plus Chasidic Jews, many of whom did not know
one another, flying to Hungary on a pilgrimage.

The statement said that the German carrier has a “zero tolerance” policy for
racism, antisemitism and discrimination of any kind. “What transpired is not
consistent with Lufthansa’s policies or values,” it said.

Israelis Denied Entry into Jordan Because of Tefillin
Israeli tourists were prevented from entering Jordan on May 10 after guards at
the border crossing found tefillin in their baggage, The Times of Israel reported,
citing Channel 12 news.

Seven men, who were with about 40 insurance agents planning on a two-day
trip in the Hashemite kingdom, returned to Israel.

One of the men delayed told Channel 12 about “the unpleasant feeling and what
he said was the disrespect shown by the Jordanians to the tefillin.”
“We reached the border crossing and everything went relatively smoothly, and
then they stopped us during the security check,” he said. “They asked us to open
the suitcases, took out the tefillin and set it aside, took our passports and took us
to a separate room.”
The man said that the guards told him that they couldn’t take the tefillin into Jordan
because it was a religious sign, and that they “could be targeted for wearing it.” JE
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