I was invited to speak at the Café Bajszel in Berlin. Here’s what I said

In 2022 , three German intellectuals and restaurateurs opened the Café Bajszel (pronounced by-zel) in the Neukölln section of Berlin .

Hamas supporters have defaced the café by pasting the terror organisation’s red triangle icon on its windows.

Staff and customers have been intimidated and called “child murderers” by staff.

Frida Ghitis: Why did Islamism become a cause célèbre of a significant part of the global Left? She asks: Why has Hamas largely escaped denunciation in the United Nations , and on Western campuses? Ghitis asks: Where, in other words, is the spirit of anti-fascism when faced with a movement that repeated the kind of Männerphantasien and raw Jew -hatred that has not been seen in world politics since the Nazis ? She says the Nazis were fervent opponents of the establishment of a Jewish state in British Mandate Palestine .

A frank discussion by liberals on both sides of the Atlantic is just one aspect of the kind of defence needed to protect our democracies against the threat posed to them by Donald Trump in the US and the Alternative for Germany party.

Drei Gesichter des Antisemitismus includes several essays that examine the similarities and differences between Trump and fascism and Nazism , and the disastrous implications of an “America-First” foreign policy.