Germany’s president, on a visit to Israel, said his country was still struggling with anti-Semitism. “Xenophobia and anti-Semitism have not disappeared from Germany,” Horst Koehler said in a Knesset speech Wednesday, referring to the rise of far-right German groups and polls that find most Germans see little difference between the Holocaust and Israeli policies against Palestinian terrorism.
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