In 2014 , antisemitic activities in Germany prompted German Chancellor Angela Merkel to lead a rally in Berlin against anti-Semitism in Germany . In that same year , about 3,500 people rallied in front of the Frankfurt City Hall to protest against a wave of antisemitic incidents in Germany . A few hundred of the protesters were from the Kurdish-Israeli Friendship Association . According to the '' JTA '' , " Merkel expressed her support for the event in a letter . " In January 2017 , a German court in the city of Wuppertal upheld the 2015 decision of a lower court which deemed an attempt by three Muslim attackers ( German Palestinians ) to burn down a synagogue in 2014 ( on the anniversary of Kristallnacht ) to be a means of " drawing attention to the Gaza conflict " with Israel , despite the fact that attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions as a result of the actions of the state of Israel amounts to collective punishment and a form of antisemitism . The offenders were not sent to prison . The German regional court ruled that the actions of the three perpetrators were governed by anti-Israelism and not antisemitism , while the attackers received suspended sentences
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Antisemitism in Europe