#Latest news with #AntisemitismusYahoo22-05-2025PoliticsYahooGerman Chancellor Merz condemns 'abhorrent' Washington attackGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed his condemnation on Thursday of the shooting dead of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington the previous evening. "At the present time, we must assume that there was an anti-Semitic motive," Merz wrote on the X social media platform. "I condemn this abhorrent act in the strongest terms," he wrote. The two people shot dead outside a Jewish museum in Washington were a young couple identified by Israel's Foreign Ministry as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. Washington police said that the gunman chanted "free Palestine" after being taken into custody.
Yahoo22-05-2025PoliticsYahooGerman Chancellor Merz condemns 'abhorrent' Washington attackGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed his condemnation on Thursday of the shooting dead of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington the previous evening. "At the present time, we must assume that there was an anti-Semitic motive," Merz wrote on the X social media platform. "I condemn this abhorrent act in the strongest terms," he wrote. The two people shot dead outside a Jewish museum in Washington were a young couple identified by Israel's Foreign Ministry as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. Washington police said that the gunman chanted "free Palestine" after being taken into custody.