Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Yacov Hadas-Handelsman, said ‘’they pursue the Jews in the streets of Berlin… as if we were in 1938,’ as Jewish people have been attacked and abused on the streets of Germany in the last two weeks.
The current conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has prompted a worrying rise in anti-Semitism in several countries of Europe in the last few days.
Murderous slogans dating back to the days of Hitler have been chanted at pro-Palestinian rallies in Germany. Reports said pro-Palestinian protesters chanted ‘’Jews to the gas chambers’’. Police in Berlin have banned race-hate slogans that reappeared after being originally used in the days of the Nazis.
Police officers had to protect an Israeli tourist at the weekend after protesters spotted his yarmulke and reportedly charged towards him shouting ‘Jew! We’ll get you.’
Fourteen people were arrested in the western city of Essen on suspicion of planning an attack on a synagogue. The imam of a Berlin mosque is under investigation after allegedly calling on Muslims to murder ‘Zionist Jews’.