Rob Hyde

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German Jewish Leader ‘personally horrified’ as far-right AfD scores historic election victory

The party’s lead candidate was previously sacked from a parliamentary role after attending a far-right meeting at which one speaker advocated a master plan’ the ‘remigration’ of ‘non-assimilated’ German citizens

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AfD co-chairs Alice Weidel (L) and Tino Chrupalla (R), with AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund (C), celebrate the results of the first exit poll projecting an AfD win in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections at the Messe Trade Fair Halls in Magdeburg, Germany, on September 6, 2026 (Getty Images)

The first volume of Da’at Hadorot will be in German classrooms during the coming the new school year. (Ernst Klett Verlag / Collage: Börsenblatt/Central Council of Jews)

German schools to get Jewish religious education books as part of curriculum for first time since Holocaust

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Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan performs next to a Palestinian flag at Release Athens Festival 2025 in Athens, Greece, on July 4, 2025 (Getty Images)

Bob Vylan frontman was deported from Germany over ‘death to IDF’ chant and ‘Hamas propaganda’

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A memorial stone in front of the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, which has reopened as a police station, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on July 16, 2026 (Getty Images)

House where Hitler was born reopens as police station

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‘Antisemitic’ pro-Gaza walk past Holocaust memorial stones in Berlin is scrapped

Event ditched after Jewish group branded it a ‘calculated transgression of boundaries’

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July 6, 2026 12:54

Stolpersteine in Berlin commemorating the Jewish Cohn family, most of whom perished in the Holocaust. (Getty Images)

Prison guard at Nazi PoW camp under investigation for ‘murder’

Thousands died of starvation, neglect and disease at Stalag Senne in Germany

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June 24, 2026 12:47

9th April 1945. The US 9th army liberating Stalag 326, another German PoW camp where Soviet troops were held. At this camp, 30,000 Soviet prisoners died during the war. (Getty Images)

Kippah-wearing dad is ‘spat at and hit in the face walking with his children in Berlin’

Police arrest 31-year-old man after ‘antisemitic attack’

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June 22, 2026 12:29

Man on trial accused of tracking Jewish figures as targets for Iran-backed attacks

The suspect, a Danish national of Afghan origin, is accused of helping the overseas arm of the IRGC prepare prospective murders and arson attacks

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June 19, 2026 12:40

View of the Hanseatic courthouse in Hamburg, Germany (Getty Images)

Antisemitism becoming the “new normal” in Germany, warns Jewish leader

Serious incidents recorded included a woman who was choked and assaulted while cleaning a Holocaust memorial in Hamburg and a man in Coburg who was stabbed after being mistaken for a Jew

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June 18, 2026 14:47

Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, attends a press conference to present a research report on antisemitism in Germany on September 30, 2025, in Berlin (Getty Images)

Teenage 'Isis fanatic' accused of ‘hunting’ Jews on trial in Germany

Prosecutors say Erjon S was radicalised by extremist material online and sought to join ‘jihad against perceived infidels’

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June 16, 2026 09:43

Aerial view of Essen skyline (Getty Images)

Syrian accused of plot to stab Jews and detonate bomb in Berlin suicide attack

Prosecutors claim he purchased materials online that could be used to build both explosive and incendiary devices

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April 29, 2026 11:05

A demonstrator holds a sign that reads 'For safe Jewish life in Germany' during a vigil outside the community center and synagogue of the Kahal Adass Jisroel Orthodox Jewish community on October 20, 2023, in Berlin (Getty Images)

Unearthed papers reveal how Austria’s Nazi judges went back to work after 1945

Investigation traced the careers of 163 justice officials between 1945 and 1955

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April 15, 2026 12:16

Unearthed papers reveal how Austria’s Nazi judges went back to work after 1945

Hamas hostages, diaspora terror victims and Shoah survivors together in March of the Living

Horrors of past and present fused at Auschwitz today

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April 14, 2026 15:48

Holocaust survivors Irene Shashar and Gita Koifman with former hostages Agam Berger and Ori Megidish (Yossi Zeliger)

Community leaders abandon exemption that allowed German Jews to avoid military service

Move follows new legislation revising rules on military service

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March 5, 2026 16:27

German Bundeswehr troops during ceremony to mark the expansion of Germany's Lithuania military commitment (Photo by Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images)

Warning over ‘explosive’ rise in hatred in Germany

The president of Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, says hostility towards Jews had reached a ‘new dimension’

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February 25, 2026 12:01

Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Don’t exploit our iconic mopeds for your political agenda, Jewish family tells far-right

Row in Germany between the descendants of the Jewish family behind the famous Simson moped brand and the AfD

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February 25, 2026 12:00

Simson mopeds in an AfD video (Image: YouTube/ AfD-Fraktion im Thüringer Landtag)

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Rob Hyde

Latest from Rob Hyde

German Jewish Leader ‘personally horrified’ as far-right AfD scores historic election victory

German schools to get Jewish religious education books as part of curriculum for first time since Holocaust

Bob Vylan frontman was deported from Germany over ‘death to IDF’ chant and ‘Hamas propaganda’

House where Hitler was born reopens as police station

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‘Antisemitic’ pro-Gaza walk past Holocaust memorial stones in Berlin is scrapped

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Man on trial accused of tracking Jewish figures as targets for Iran-backed attacks

Antisemitism becoming the “new normal” in Germany, warns Jewish leader

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Warning over ‘explosive’ rise in hatred in Germany

Don’t exploit our iconic mopeds for your political agenda, Jewish family tells far-right