DFB President Bernd Neuendorf took a clear stance against anti-Semitism at the Julius Hirsch Award ceremony. "If you know our past, you cannot question the existence of the state of Israel," Neuendorf said during a media roundtable in Munich.
He felt it was "a disgrace that certain things are being articulated here in Germany again and that people are not aware of the history for which we are responsible," said the 63-year-old.
The German Football Association is "very clearly on the side" of the Jewish community, he said, adding that it is "difficult when people have to be afraid to wear a kippah, when they have to read slogans on walls that we believed would never happen again".
