German Bishop tasked with fighting antisemitism preached anti-Israel ideas – Terminology used by Bishop Gerhard Ulrich in a 2017 sermon “smacks of old Germanic antisemitic tropes and later Nazi antisemitism,“ says Hebron’s Jewish community spokesman. | JNS.org

(November 30, 2022 / JNS) A former German state bishop recently appointed to fight Jew-hatred delivered a sermon in 2017 in which he stated that Israel’s “occupation” of the disputed territories “deforms souls.”
“On a meeting trip with members of the Lutheran World Federation to Israel-Palestine in November, we were able to experience how the time of occupation weighs on people, deforms souls, restricts freedom; how border controls degrade people and how this all breeds new violence,” said Bishop Gerhard Ulrich.