Israeli envoy to Germany asks if Breaking the Silence spreads anti-Semitism – City of Cologne reverses itself and will show exhibit | Jerusalem Post

Israeli envoy to Germany asks if Breaking the Silence spreads anti-Semitism – City of Cologne reverses itself and will show exhibit | Jerusalem Post

BERLIN – After the Cologne Municipality reversed its cancellation of an exhibit from the Breaking the Silence NGO, Israel’s ambassador asked whether the anti-IDF exhibit will encourage hatred of Jews.

In uncharacteristically strong language, Ambassador Yakov Hadas-Handelsman asked the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger daily on Wednesday: Is the Breaking the Silence exhibit “a vehicle to spread anti-Semitism?”…