During the week of 7 October, the flag of Israel flies on the school building. The following statement is posted in the auditorium for students, staff and visitors:
St. Anna College considers it necessary to commemorate October 7, 2023.
On that day, fanatical Muslim terrorists from Gaza attacked the State of Israel without provocation and carried out an indescribable massacre: they indiscriminately killed over 1,200 people in a brutal manner and took over 250 hostages. The reason? Simply because they were Jews or lived in Israel.
St. Anna’s College is deeply shocked that this largest pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust immediately triggered a growing antisemitic – meaning anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli – wave in the Western world – especially in educational institutions such as schools, colleges and universities – which continues to this day. An ancient hatred of Jews has broken out and continues to operate as it always has, through distortion, falsification and lies.
Thus, the terrible deeds of 7 October are being pushed into oblivion and, instead, attempts are being made to turn the actual victims into perpetrators. Israel is defending itself against evil for the sake of its fundamentally threatened existence. In doing so, it is also defending the struggle for reason and truth and all the values based on them, that have become the foundation of the “West”.
Management Förderkreis of the St. Anna Colleg Shareholder