Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Fighting Hate In Berlin’s Turkish Quarter

"Fighting Hate In Berlin’s Turkish Quarter

by Sharon Udasin
Staff Writer
Berlin — On a December afternoon in 2006, in a predominantly Turkish section of this rapidly changing Berlin, a 14-year-old girl was walking home from the Lisa Morgenstern High School with her Muslim classmates, as they did most days. But the friendships ended when, one day, the girl casually mentioned that she was Jewish. In the next few weeks, those classmates and others hurled anti-Semitic insults at her and even attacked her physically, delivering blows to her back and head."

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