BDS activists launch tirade against MK and Holocaust survivor in Berlin
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                  BDS activists launch tirade against MK and Holocaust survivor in Berlin

                  A demonstrator wears a shirt reading 'Boycott Israel' [File]. (photo credit:AFP/ MOHD RASFAN)

                  BDS activists launch tirade against MK and Holocaust survivor in Berlin

                  22.06.2017, Anti-Semitism

                  Anti-Israel activists disrupted on Tuesday a talk by MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid) at Humboldt University in Berlin, in what appears to be a second antisemitic attack at one of Germany’s most famous educational institutions.

                  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activists hollered profanity and “The blood of the Gaza Strip in on your hand” and “Child murderer.”

                  Lavie is on a tour of German academic centers and meetings with Bundestag deputies, as well as with members of the Jewish community.

                  One protester wearing a T-shirt with the words “Boycott Israel” on it accused the Israeli representatives of apartheid.

                  Lavie said in a statement: “No one in Israel and around the world will prevent us from telling the truth and driving back the industry of lies and incitement against Israel,” and continued: “Unfortunately my lecture quickly turned into a violent and antisemitic demonstration of BDS activists, including Israelis, who did not let me speak.

                  “This is the ugly face of the boycott industry and the BDS movement. They are not fighting for peace or rights, but against the right of the Jewish people to a national home in the State of Israel. It saddens me that Deborah, a Holocaust survivor, should have witnessed this shameful spectacle,” the MK added.

                  Twenty BDS activists stormed the talk, according to Lavie.

                  Ronnie Barkan and Majed Abusalama, two of the activists who disrupted the Humboldt event, were barred from speaking at BDS events in Oldenburg last week due to antisemitism.

                  The Mayor of Oldenburg Jürgen Krogmann pulled the plug on the BDS events.

                  Holocaust survivor Deborah Weinstein, 82, said: “They came in advance to destroy and spoil, but it will not help them. Our work is completed. Many people, even those who were not for us, came, listened and asked questions, and wanted to hear us. I am sorry for that group of violent rioters, but I am not afraid and I will continue with this work.”

                  One activist said he was a "a journalist from Gaza" and cited material from the Israeli left-wing NGO organizations B'Tselem and Breaking the Silence.

                  Dr. Efraim Zuroff, head of the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, “It is absolutely pathetic that university authorities cannot ensure that a meeting hosting an MK will not be violently disrupted by protesters.”

                  He added: “It is unthinkable that a lecture about Israel from Zionist Israeli and pro-Israel voices can be disrupted by violence in a German university.”

                  By Benjamin Weinthal

                  JPost.com