On the occasion of the commemorations of the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht and in a context of increasing violence against Jews, a conference was devoted to the duty of memory on Thursday in Bern.
Ignazio Cassis, for his part, estimated that the cases of anti-Semitism observed in Switzerland “require clear discourse, followed by concrete actions”.
“Many of our Jewish fellow citizens are afraid to leave their apartment or their house, to put on a yarmulke or to wear the Star of David as a pendant. They are taken to task and insulted,” he wrote in an article published in Le Temps, describing what these people have to endure as “unbearable”. ...