German-Jewish teen says fleeing Berlin for Israel over schoolyard antisemitism

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15-year-old German-Jewish student Liam Rückert told the BZ daily on Friday that he plans to relocate to Israel to continue his education due to what he said was rampant Muslim-animated hatred of Jews in the Berlin public school system.

“I want to go to a boarding school like my brother in Israel. I already visited him and he is doing well there,” Rückert said. His mother Billy is from Israel and taught her sons Hebrew.

In 2016, a student of Arab origin said during a discussion of the Middle East conflict in Rückert’s class: “If there is a Jewish student in the class, I would kill him.” According to the BZ article, students of Polish and Arab descent have targeted Liam with insults such as “shitty Israeli” and “shitty Jew.” The Berlin school barred Liam from changing classes at the school named Jungfernheide.

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Benjamin Weinthal

Benjamin Weinthal is an investigative journalist and a Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum. He is based in Jerusalem and reports on the Middle East for Fox News Digital and the Jerusalem Post. He earned his B.A. from New York University and holds a M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. Weinthal’s commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Haaretz, the Guardian, Politico, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Ynet and many additional North American and European outlets. His 2011 Guardian article on the Arab revolt in Egypt, co-authored with Eric Lee, was published in the book The Arab Spring (2012).