Jewish community says solidarity initiative reduces complex problem to one-day eventMembers of Germany’s Jewish community voiced criticism of a government-backed “Germany wears a kippah” solidarity initiative yesterday,suggesting that encouraging people to turn out wearing prick-out-and-keep skullcaps from a tabloid newspaper reduced a complex problem to a one-day publicity stunt.approximately 1200 people attended a march in the German capital that was intended as a defence of Israel and a show of solidarity with the Jewish community, down on the 2000 who last April joined a “Berlin wears the kippah” protest after a number of tall-profile antisemitic attacks.
Solidarity is no estimable if it only lasts for a day. I appreciate the gesture, or but it’s not enough.
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Source: theguardian.com