(25 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin – 25 June 2024
1. Wide of news conference room
2. Daniel Botmann, Managing Director of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dr Felix Klein, Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, Bianca Loy, Scientific Officer at the Federal Association RIAS e.V. (Federal Association of Research and Information Centres on Anti-Semitism), Benjamin Steinitz, Managing Director of the Federal Association RIAS e.V. (Federal Association of Research and Information Centres on Anti-Semitism) posing for photos
3. Video journalists
4. Loy holding report
5. Wide of Botmann, Klein, Loy and Steinitz posing for photos
6. Close of photographer
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Benjamin Steinitz, Managing Director of the Federal Association RIAS e.V. (Federal Association of Research and Information Centres on Anti-Semitism):
“Ladies and gentlemen, an open and natural, but above all carefree Jewish life has been even less possible in Germany since 7 October than before.”
8. News conference in progress
9. Journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Dr Felix Klein, Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Anti-Semitism:
“In order to provide law enforcement authorities with effective means to comprehensively combat anti-Jewish incitement and violence, I am calling for amendments to the Criminal Code. For example, calling for the destruction of other states must be made a criminal offence.”
11. Journalist
12. Wide of news conference
13. SOUNDBITE (German) Dr Felix Klein, Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Anti-Semitism:
“We will not rest in the fight against Jew-hatred until a RIAS annual report can be published in which only a fraction of the figures presented today or no more anti-Semitic incidents are recorded.”
14. Various of journalists
15. SOUNDBITE (German) Daniel Botmann, Managing Director of the Central Council of Jews in Germany:
“I am convinced that being anti-Semitic is still too easy and too cheap in Germany. You get off too cheaply if you are anti-Semitic or if you act anti-Semitically. People are aware of the different measures that are used to combat anti-Semitism, above all, education. That is an important pillar. But also, criminal prosecution, repression. People who are involved in anti-Semitism and who are anti-Semitic still get off too easily and too cheaply. We need to provide the judiciary and security authorities with more tools in various areas.”
16. News conference room
STORYLINE:
A group that tracks antisemitism in Germany says it recorded an overall increase of more than 80% in incidents last year, with well over half of the total coming after Hamas-led militants’ attack on Israel in early October.
"An open and natural, but above all carefree Jewish life has been even less possible in Germany since 7 October than before,” said Benjamin Steinitz, the managing director at the Federal Association of Research and Information Centres on Anti-Semitism (RIAS).
The RIAS group said Tuesday it recorded 4,782 antisemitic incidents in 2023, ranging from anti-Jewish comments to attacks.
That compared with 2,616 in 2022. The group said that 2,787 of last year’s recorded incidents — more than the previous year’s total — took place after the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, which triggered the ongoing war in Gaza. Those incidents included a mid-October attack on a synagogue in Berlin, which caused widespread alarm.
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