Eldad Beck: Left-wing activists work to stop reconstruction of Hamburg synagogue – Former Israeli envoy to Germany among those decrying move to rebuild synagogue destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938. Bundestag, Hamburg Senate have committed to investing around $150 million in the project. | israelhayom.com

An initiative to rebuild a Hamburg synagogue destroyed by the Nazis has been met with fierce opposition from German supporters of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement and Israel left-wing activists.
Opponents of the move say the reconstruction of the synagogue is tantamount to „rewriting and erasing its history.“ Members of Hamburg’s Jewish community assert opposition to the move is „a terrible insult and political abuse of pure intentions to rectify an injustice that has not been corrected since the Holocaust.“