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'As a queer Jew, I don't feel welcome': New report examines antisemitism in Berlin's LGBTQ+ scene

Jewish LGBTQ+ Berliners report feeling increasingly unwelcome in queer spaces after October 7, according to a new government-commissioned report.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
A participant draped in a rainbow flag with a Star of David marches with others towards Berlin's victory column during the 2025 Christopher Street Day CSD Berlin Pride march, in Berlin, Germany. July 26, 2025
A Stolperstein or a 'stumbling stone' with the words, "here lived Margot Bendheim, born 1921, deported 1944 - Theresienstadt, survived" engraved in memory of Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender, is embedded in front of the house where she once lived, after she died on May 9 at the age of 103.

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized in latest antisemitic vandalism incident

The memorial for the 32,000 deported Jews has faced repeated vandalism since its creation, with it being splashed with white paint and covered in parcel tape in August.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
People attend a commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized, covered in green graffiti, police say

A stele at the Berlin memorial was discovered covered in green graffiti containing "inflammatory content," according to a Wednesday police statement.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
THE FREE University Berlin (Freie Universitaet Berlin) stands at twilight on February 07, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.

Violent assault on Jewish student in Berlin not antisemitic in motive, appeals court rules

The appeals chamber also commuted the prison sentence of the attacker to two years and six months.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Syrian refugees join Berlin Jewish community for last night of Hanukkah

Giant menorah in Brandenburg Square sends a message that ‘peace and tolerance are stronger than any dispute,’ says Chabad head in German capital.

DECEMBER 13, 2015ByJTA
People stand in front of a giant eight- branched candelabrum Menorah in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on December 6, 2015 at the start of the holiday of the jewish religious festival of lights Hanukkah.

Socialist sentimentality

Pierre Birnbaum offers a fawning – but partly justified – treatment of Léon Blum in his new biography

OCTOBER 1, 2015ByMATI WAGNER
The Leon Blum memorial in Kibbutz Kfar Blum

German politician: Israel’s security fence is worse than communist Berlin Wall

In comparison with Israel’s security borders, “the Berlin Wall is a toy” said the Bavarian politician in a nearly four minute video posted on YouTube.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
A nun hurries by the security barrier toward the checkpoint from Jerusalem on her way to pray by the spot where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity

CrossFit 'guru' incites fury over headstand at Berlin Holocaust memorial

On Tuesday Driskell took to Instagram again, this time to apologize and confirm that he did not know that he had been on hallowed ground.

AUGUST 11, 2015ByGIDEON GOREN
David Driskell

Euro Maccabi games marred by anti-Semitism in Berlin

Assault, insults as athletes told to keep their Jewish identities undercover.

AUGUST 1, 2015ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Athletes of the Israeli team arrive for the opening cermony of the 14th European Maccabi Games in Berlin, Germany July 28, 2015

Berlin police apologize for making soccer fans remove Israeli flag

Almog Cohen, an Israeli who plays for Ingolstadt, reportedly tweeted in Hebrew after Sunday’s incident that a stadium marshal told the fans “no Jew-flags” were allowed.

APRIL 28, 2015ByJTA
Protesters attend a rally against anti-Semitism in Frankfurt

Albanian man arrested in connection with murder of Israeli in Berlin

According to investigators, the suspect met Yosef Damari, aged 22, in a Berlin hostel last week and and is believed to have murdered him the following day.

APRIL 11, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF, REUTERS
Ruins of Franciscan Monastery in Berlin

Berlin, ville transfigurée

Poumon de l’Europe, la capitale allemande, empoisonnée par sa propre histoire, n’en finit pas d’expier ses péchés

FEBRUARY 24, 2015ByHÉLÈNE SCHOUMANN
Sous ces dalles infernales se trouve le musée

German Judge: Torching of Synagogue not motivated by anti-Semitism

Two German Palestinians convicted of arson in July attack.

FEBRUARY 7, 2015ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Handcuffs [Illustrative]

German judge convicts man for shouting ‘Death to Zionists’ at march

Landmark case equates lethal anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

JANUARY 31, 2015ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Women and children attend a demonstration supporting the Palestinians, in Berlin July 22, 2014.