According to a report in the Times Germany’s Jewish leaders have demanded an investigation into antisemitic bullying after a boy was withdrawn from a school by his parents following an attack by Muslim pupils.
The incident involved a teenager, 14, who suffered four months of verbal and physical harassment culminating in an assault by Turkish and Arab boys at a state school in Berlin.
According to the report Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, called on Muslim community leaders to combat “antisemitic tendencies in their ranks”.
Mr Schuster, 63, has warned that more effort needs to be put into educating Muslim children against antisemitism, especially with the arrival of more than a million migrants since the start of 2015, mainly from Islamic countries.
The boy’s parents had chosen the Friedenauer school because it was multicultural but his problems started when classmates asked if he was Jewish. His mother, who is British, told the Jewish Chronicle that one of them responded: “Listen, you are a cool dude but I can’t be friends with you, Jews are all murderers.”
The report also mentioned an attack that occured ast month in which the boy “was attacked and almost strangled, and the guy pulled a toy gun on him that looked like a real gun”.
