Author: William Noah Glucroft

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Congregants of Kreuzberg's Fraenkelufer Synagogue gather in December 2014 to celebrate the first night of Chanukah (photo: William Noah Glucroft)

The anti-Semitism debate

A desperate need for a third way

In the wake of a protest against Israel's war in Gaza last year, Israel's ambassador to Germany claimed that Jews are being hunted again in Germany "like it's 1938". In this article, William Noah Glucroft, a Jew living in Berlin, considers this statement and what people mean when they talk about anti-SemitismMore

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