Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Like elsewhere in the world, in Germany, too, COVID-19 walks hand in hand with the a-Virus. Facing an exponential growth in anti-Semitic incidents, legislative measures are an important component in the battle against this threat. The anti-BDS resolution passed by Bundestag in 2019, for example, is an effective vaccine against socio-political super-spreaders. Germany’s adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism in 2017 was another important measure. It helped demystify the bond between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism inherent in the ideological DNA of BDS.