Can Germany Resist the Trump Disease?

Israeli flags. Guitar music. Bicycles. Strollers, dogs, and thick sweaters. Here at the Brandenburg Gate on a sunny October Sunday, 20,000 people gathered, united by the ideals of the modern German state. The German president spoke. The Israeli ambassador spoke. The father of two kidnapped daughters spoke. The audience listened attentively.

Then, when it was all over, those traveling by subway removed their kippah, put away their Stars of David. The police cannot be everywhere at once, and so they protectively advise Berliners not to display symbols of Judaism.

Some days earlier, on October 18, two people incendiary devices at a synagogue in central Berlin. This followed a week of clashes between police and protesters in a heavily Muslim section of the city, Neukölln. Earlier this month, the German magazine with Güner Balci, the integration commissioner for