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Some journalists and intellectuals are the target of strong campaigns in Germany against their supposed antisemitism. But in addition to the unbridled Islamophobia that these media denunciations reveal, it is in reality voices critical of Israel, including Jewish and Israeli ones, that find themselves pilloried. Germany’s vigilance against antisemitism would seem admirable. The German state and civil society seem to have achieved something remarkable: linking an institutionalized culture (.)
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Like elsewhere in the world, in Germany, too, COVID-19 walks hand in hand with the a-Virus. Facing an exponential growth in anti-Semitic incidents, legislative measures are an important component in the battle against this threat. The anti-BDS resolution passed by Bundestag in 2019, for example, is an effective vaccine against socio-political super-spreaders. Germany’s adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism in 2017 was another important measure. It helped demystify the bond between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism inherent in the ideological DNA of BDS.