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A silent protest with some 100 participants organized by the Fridays for Israel group at the Free University of Berlin on Friday highlighted the fears of Jewish students. Green Party chairwoman Ricarda Lang, former Green Party politician Volker Beck and CDU politician Ottilie Klein attended the protest. The protest was in response to a 30-year-old Jewish Free University student, Lahav Shapira, being hospitalized after being physically assaulted on the weekend. A 23-year-old pro-Palestinian German fellow student is alleged to have punched and kicked him in the city’s central Berlin-Mitte distri…

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