State Secretary - Marx: Ensuring the safety of Jewish students
Berlin's State Secretary for Science, Henry Marx, is calling for measures to protect Jewish students at universities. In addition to the consistent exercise of domiciliary rights, it is important, for example, that prevention, training and support structures are expanded and anti-Semitism officers are established, the SPD politician announced on Wednesday after an expert discussion on anti-Semitism at universities. He also cited examples where this was already happening or planned.
"It must be the goal of us all to ensure the safety of Jewish students and to create a climate in which they can study at German universities without any worries," said Marx. All stakeholders must work together to do "everything imaginable" to protect Jewish students. In addition, efforts must be made to prevent anti-Semitic acts at universities.
At Tuesday's meeting at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, representatives of the federal and state governments, Jewish students, academics, representatives of the German Rectors' Conference and the German Student Union exchanged views on the topic, as the Senate Department for Science explained. The Conference of Education Ministers recently called on universities in Germany to monitor anti-Semitic incidents and presented an action plan on the subject.
According to the Research and Information Center on Anti-Semitism Berlin (Rias), the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin increased sharply in the first month after the Hamas terror attack on Israel. At one university, for example, posters showing hostages kidnapped by Hamas were torn down and replaced with "Free Palestine" posters. In meetings and actions at universities, the suffering of Palestinian civilians was pointed out, but not the Jewish victims of October 7, reported Rias. This could be experienced by Jews and Israelis "as an act of desolidarization, which, in addition to the confrontation with concrete anti-Semitic incidents, is also very stressful".
Rias report
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- Apart from strengthening domestic security measures, Berlin's University communities should also work on expanding prevention, training, and support structures to combat anti-Semitism, as suggested by State Secretary Marx and the SPD.
- There has been a significant rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin's universities, as reflected in the latest report from the Research and Information Center on Anti-Semitism Berlin (Rias).
- In light of the rising anti-Semitism at German universities, various stakeholders, including government officials, academics, and student organizations, should collaborate to establish anti-Semitism officers, promote awareness, and take proactive measures to safeguard Jewish students' education.
Source: www.stern.de
