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Mosby

(17,345 posts)
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 12:33 PM Apr 2023

Cries of 'Death to the Jews' Heard at Pro-Palestinian Demonstration in Berlin

German police have launched an investigation following a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin over the weekend at which participants chanted “Death to the Jews” and “Death to Israel” — slogans proscribed under Germany’s stringent post-Holocaust laws to combat antisemitism.

The 500 mainly Muslim demonstrators gathered on Saturday in the Kreuzberg and Neukölln neighborhoods of the German capital. Video of the event captured by Democ., an independent NGO, caught some some demonstrators shouting “Death to the Jews” as well as rhythmic chants of “Death to Israel” and “With our blood and our spirit, we will liberate you, Al Aqsa” — a reference to the mosque in eastern Jerusalem that has been the site of clashes in the last week between Palestinians and Israeli forces.

News of the police investigation into the demonstration — organized by the pro-Palestinian organization Samidoun — was accompanied by trenchant condemnation of the scenes there by prominent politicians.

Nancy Faeser, Germany’s Interior Minister, declared on Twitter: “I condemn the highly inhuman, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slogans in the strongest possible terms. Now it is important to investigate quickly and decisively. The agitators must be identified and held accountable.”

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/04/10/cries-of-death-to-the-jews-heard-at-pro-palestinian-demonstration-in-berlin/

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Cries of 'Death to the Jews' Heard at Pro-Palestinian Demonstration in Berlin (Original Post) Mosby Apr 2023 OP
Anti Jewish hate speech is still condemned, but anti-Israel sentiments Mosby Apr 2023 #1
But only condemned if "properly" documented. Igel Apr 2023 #2
Jewish Voice for Peace unequivocally condemns Canary Mission, Goddessartist May 2023 #3
A march through a major German city yelling "Death to Jews" is asking for trouble DFW Jul 2023 #4

Mosby

(17,345 posts)
1. Anti Jewish hate speech is still condemned, but anti-Israel sentiments
Tue Apr 11, 2023, 12:36 PM
Apr 2023

Last edited Tue Apr 11, 2023, 02:09 PM - Edit history (1)

Have been mostly normalized by the global left. It's perfectly OK to say the Jewish State should be destroyed. Eg:


Igel

(36,032 posts)
2. But only condemned if "properly" documented.
Sat Apr 15, 2023, 08:15 PM
Apr 2023

A speech in English condemning an suicide attack in Jerusalem but ending with a repeated cry in Arabic, "A million martyrs to Jerusalem!" gets praise.

The shadidath (sic) don't know English and don't hear the condemnation, the Western audience don't know Arabic and don't hear the exhortation.

Hard to condemn what you don't hear. Hard to condemn something you don't know the full context of--oddly, it's easy to accept things that you rather like if you don't know the full context of. (Wait. That's "confirmation bias." Foolish, but not odd.)

Goddessartist

(2,067 posts)
3. Jewish Voice for Peace unequivocally condemns Canary Mission,
Sat May 13, 2023, 09:33 AM
May 2023
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2016/05/canary-mission/

a malicious website that seeks to vilify principled activists for Palestinian human rights with targeted campaigns of misinformation, bigotry and slander.

DFW

(56,428 posts)
4. A march through a major German city yelling "Death to Jews" is asking for trouble
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 05:20 AM
Jul 2023

The Germans will give them some.“v

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