BERLIN, GERMANY – APRIL 07: Supermoon shines over the Reichstag Building on April 07, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Today’s super pink moon is the biggest and closest supermoon of the year of the year (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images) (JTA) — Germany has seen an increase of anti-Semitism along with the rise in coronavirus cases, the country’s anti-Semitism commissioner said.
“There are direct links between the current spread of the coronavirus and that of anti-Semitism,” Felix Klein said Tuesday in Berlin, the AFP news agency reported. “In recent weeks, right-wing radicals have increasingly tried to leverage the coronavirus crisis for their own ends.”
Klein described one current pandemic conspiracy theory which states that the coronavirus is a failed bioweapon set loose by the Mossad, Israel’s secret service.
He was in the German capital for the launch of a government research project involving several German universities to better understand the causes and manifestations of anti-Semitism.
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