A silent protest with some 100 participants organized by the Fridays for Israel group at the Free University of Berlin on Friday highlighted the fears of Jewish students. Green Party chairwoman Ricarda Lang, former Green Party politician Volker Beck and CDU politician Ottilie Klein attended the protest. The protest was in response to a 30-year-old Jewish Free University student, Lahav Shapira, being hospitalized after being physically assaulted on the weekend. A 23-year-old pro-Palestinian Germa
The Free University (FU) announced on Friday that it is banning for three months the suspect of an attack on a fellow FU student who is Jewish to protect the campus community. "In view of the offence, the suspect would be perceived as a threat on the university campus," FU President Günter Ziegler said in a statement. "In order to protect the members of the university and to safeguard the peace of the university, the ban that has now been imposed for an initial period of three months is indispen
Berlin's Free University (FU) announced on Friday that it is banning for three months the suspect of an attack on a fellow FU student who is Jewish to protect the campus community. "In view of the offence, the suspect would be perceived as a threat on the university campus," FU President Günter Ziegler said in a statement. "In order to protect the members of the university and to safeguard the peace of the university, the ban that has now been imposed for an initial period of three months is ind
A beating in central Berlin last weekend that left a Jewish student at the city's Free University (FU) hospitalized appears to have been a targeted attack, according to investigators. The assault appears to have been politically motivated over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is being investigated as a potential anti-Semitic attack, according to a spokesman for Berlin's public prosecutor's office. Because of the apparent political motivation, the incident has been classified as a hate crime,
After an attack on a Jewish student in Berlin, German Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger has called on universities to take firm action. Anti-Semitism must have clear consequences, the minister told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) in an article published Wednesday. "University management must therefore make use of all the legal options available to them," said Stark-Watzinger. Over the weekend, 30-year-old Lahav Shapira, a student at Berlin's Free University, was hospitalized wi