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March 16, 2017

A German Court Rules a Synagogue-Burning “Criticism of Israel”

Again, the European establishment denies anti-Semitism.

Two years ago, three German men of Palestinian descent threw Molotov cocktails at a synagogue. In a ruling recently upheld by a higher court, the three were declared guilty of the attack but were not convicted of committing a hate crime since—in the courts’ logic—they had been engaged in a political protest against Israel’s policies. Abraham Cooper and Yitzchok Adlerstein write:

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