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Syrian national arrested for aiding 2025 Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing

A Syrian national was arrested in Berlin for aiding and abetting a 2025 knife attack at the Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist critically injured.

A single lit candle lies on a frost covered concrete block at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on January 26, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.
A single lit candle lies on a frost covered concrete block at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on January 26, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

German police arrest Syrian suspected of helping attack at Holocaust memorial

An illustrative silhouette of an intelligence agent handler with a backdrop of the Iranian flag.

Two men charged for plot to assassinate German Jewish leaders on behalf of Iran

A Stolperstein or a 'stumbling stone' with the words, "here lived Margot Bendheim, born 1921, deported 1944 - Theresienstadt, survived" engraved in memory of Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender, is embedded in front of the house where she once lived, after she died on May 9 at the age of 103.

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized in latest antisemitic vandalism incident


Berlin renames state parliament plaza after German Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander

"Margot Friedlander Square stands for human dignity, for Jewish life in our city, and for the values that are essential to our democracy: freedom, respect, and tolerance," said Berlin Mayor Wegner.

Margot Friedländer, Holocaust survivor and honorary citizen of Berlin, participates in Berlin's event commemorating the end of World War II, May 7, 2025. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized, covered in green graffiti, police say

A stele at the Berlin memorial was discovered covered in green graffiti containing "inflammatory content," according to a Wednesday police statement.

People attend a commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

Berliners are coming to terms with their past - book review

The 'desire to look away, to pretend ignorance, to be wilfully oblivious, must have been the norm.'

During the Nazi era (1933–1945), Berlin's Brandenburg Gate was heavily utilized as a propaganda symbol, representing Nazi power through marches and events.

A new Hebrew press in Berlin argues that Israel doesn’t own the language

Founded by two Israeli expatriates, Altneuland aims to create a global platform for Hebrew and Jewish literature, independent of state funding and rooted in a multilingual, borderless vision.

Berlin argues that Israel doesnt own the language

'Kill all Jews:' Synagogue defaced with swastika, apartments graffitied in German cities

The Cottbus Synagogue was found vandalized with a swastika painted on its facade before dawn Monday, Brandenburg Police said, marking the second defacement of the Jewish house of worship in four days

Graffiti calling for the death of Jews found in Berlin on April 26, 2026.

Berlin’s farce: How Germany failed Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi - comment

In Berlin, Iran’s Prince Pahlavi rejects foreign influence claims while security failures and Germany’s political ties with the Islamic regime raise concerns.

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah and an Iranian opposition figure, stained with red substance, leaves after a press conference at the House of the Bundespressekonferenz in Berlin, Germany, April 23, 2026.

Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi splashed with red substance in Berlin after criticizing ceasefire

Walla reported that Pahlavi was not hurt in the attack, and police arrested the suspect immediately afterward. Walla also said that the police stated that the substance appeared to be tomato juice.

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah and an Iranian opposition figure flashes the victory sign during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) USA 2026 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center, in Grapevine, Texas, U.S., March 28, 2026.

Syrian national charged in Germany for planned suicide knife attack against Jews, 'infidels'

The suspect is accused of a terrorist offense, terrorism financing, and four counts of disseminating terrorist propaganda materials.

(ILLUSTRATIVE) Police officers are seen near the Holocaust Memorial a day after stabbing in Berlin, Germany on February 22, 2025.

Violent assault on Jewish student in Berlin not antisemitic in motive, appeals court rules

The appeals chamber also commuted the prison sentence of the attacker to two years and six months.

THE FREE University Berlin (Freie Universitaet Berlin) stands at twilight on February 07, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.

Germany: 'Respectable antisemitism'

Even as Germany strengthened its institutional response to antisemitism, it became the central European battleground over the legitimacy of the IHRA definition itself.

GRAVES DESECRATED by vandals with Nazi swastikas and antisemitic slogans are seen in the Jewish cemetery of Weyhers, Germany, near the city of Ebersburg, Aug. 2005.