Jewish organizations in Germany have slammed a prominent leftist daily after it published an op-ed telling the community’s top representative to “just shut up already” following his public statements on the joint Israeli-American military strikes on Iran. The controversy began after Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, issued a statement on Tuesday in which he backed the military action, expressing hope for the fall of the Iranian regime. On Wednesday, Susanne Knaul, an editor at the Berlin-based Die Tageszeitung, known as taz, published an opinion piece under the title “Just shut up already.” In it,...
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