Germany’s Jewish community fears anti-Semitic bullying in schools

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Germany’s Jewish community on Tuesday urged schools to keep track of religious bullying among pupils amid concern about a possible spike in anti-Semitic abuse on the playground.

The head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, told German broadcaster ZDF he backed a proposal by a police union for nationwide statistics to be kept on religious bullying.

He said he wanted teachers and students to have a way to report “anti-Semitic or other acts of violence without bureaucratic hurdles, in order to get a clearer picture of what is going on”.

The plea comes after Germany was shocked by reports that a young Jewish girl was bullied by Muslim fellow pupils at a Berlin primary school and even allegedly received death threats after she said she didn’t believe in Allah.

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