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May 29, 2019

Angela Merkel Warns Against Rise of Nationalism
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Europe must fight against the
right-wing ideology that is on the rise in Europe and around the world.
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour following the European
Parliament elections, which saw some gains for nationalist parties,
Merkel stressed the importance of learning from Germany's own history.

Chancellor Angela Merkel: "There is to this day not a single synagogue,
not a single day care center for Jewish children, not a single school
for Jewish children that does not need to be guarded by German
policemen. … We have to face up, indeed, to the specters of the past. We
have to tell our young people what history has brought over us and
others and these horrors, why we are for democracy, why we try to bring
about solutions, why we always have to put ourselves in the other
person's shoes."

On Saturday, Germany's anti-Semitism commissioner advised Jews in the
country to avoid wearing kippahs in public because of the rise in
anti-Semitism. German government figures show that anti-Semitic hate
crimes rose by almost 20% from 2017 to 2018.


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