Interviews - antisemitism

Michael Blume: “There are around 20% latent anti-Semites and 5% active anti-Semites in Germany.”

Since 2018, Michael Blume has served as Commissioner for Combating antisemitism in Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart, the capital of this southern German state, has found itself at the center of nationwide controversy since last spring: It is the home of Querdenken 711, an anti-quarantine/anti-vaccine movement spawned in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic which has since made its name as one of Germany’s protest movements most radical, most violent, and most tolerant of antisemitsm.

Bernard Cazeneuve: “Every Time Anti-Semitism Wins in France, the Republic Ceases to Be Itself”

As Minister of the Interior during the presidency of François Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve had to deal with the wave of attacks in 2015. An interview about the threats to the Jews of France and the attacks they suffered, as well as his conception of the Republic and the relationship of Jews to it … >>>

Joann Sfar : “I am terrified of the disappearance of a European Jewish cultural and intellectual life”.

Interview with Joann Sfar, who owed us some explanations about the title of his latest novel: The Last Jew in Europe.

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