A former TV news anchor in Germany was booed for making an anti-Semitic joke at a gala benefit. According to a report in the Bild newspaper, Claus Seibel, 68, was moderating the event in Munich on Nov. 30 for a children’s charity, when he made a joke about greediness being a supposed typical Jewish characteristic.
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