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Germany's Jewish community responded this week when a 21-year-old man wearing a Jewish skullcap, also called a kippa, was attacked by an assailant yelling "Yahudi!" — the Arabic word for Jew.
The victim told Deutsche Welle that he is actually an Israeli Arab who had donned the cap as an "experiment" to disprove a friend who warned that it had become unsafe to wear a kippa in Germany.
And so yesterday, Germans united.
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