Trying to deal with what is real and what is merely perceived right now is hard enough, but people like this are anathema imo. NOT HELPFUL. At least he's decided to tell the truth finally.
In surprise testimony Tuesday, Ofarim admitted to the accusations, saying
he had made up the story and asking the hotel staff for forgiveness.
“For two years, Gil Ofarim accused employees of a Leipzig hotel of antisemitism. Now he has confessed that he lied. In doing so, Gil Ofarim has caused great harm to all
those who are actually affected by antisemitism,” Germany’s Central Council for Jews in Germany wrote in a statement.
A German-Israeli singer who claimed he had been turned away from a hotel in the eastern German city of Leipzig because he was wearing a Star of David pendant has admitted during a defamation trial against him that he made up the story.
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“In the event of an accusation of antisemitism, it is right to stand on the side of the person concerned, to support them and
not to question their experience of antisemitism in the first instance,” the group said. “Conversely, such
an accusation must never be made without good reason. And that unfortunately happened here.”
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