Anti-Israel rioters threw red paint on members of the German Jewish community while hosting an event on Friday evening to commemorate the remaining 50 hostages being held hostage by Hamas.
By Rachel Avraham
Anti-Israel rioters threw red paint on members of the German Jewish community while hosting an event on Friday evening in Grüneburgpark to commemorate the remaining 50 hostages being held by Hamas, the Jerusalem Post reported. According to the report, while placing photos of the 50 hostages on posts at the park, masked attackers reportedly sprayed the people attending the event with red paint.
Sacha Stawski, the president of the anti-antisemitism organization Honestly Concerned, told Bild that he saw a masked woman spray two tubes of paint on multiple men, including himself. According to Yedioth Achronot, Stabsky said 20 to 30 activists were present, some masked, who tried to block and harass them. “We heard antisemitic chants, were called ‘child killers’ and heard shouts of ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘genocide,’” he said. “Then we were attacked with paint. Some of it got on my glasses so I couldn’t clearly see the assailant.”
Apparently, this is not the first time that something like this happened. Stabsky told Yedioth Achronot that the attack was part of a pattern of harassment. “In recent days the pictures I hung in the park were repeatedly torn down. This time it escalated to a physical attack, which is shocking in a city twinned with Tel Aviv,” he said.
Representatives of the Jewish community told the Frankfurter Allgemeine that removing the photos was not just a political act but “a blow to the families of the hostages in Gaza” and should be regarded as an antisemitic act. According to Yedioth Achronot, community sources added that a pro-Palestinian camp operates in the area and that many events held there involve incitement against Israel and use public spaces to promote extreme views.
“We had previously been in the park for a cross-party walkabout organized by the local CDU chapter,” Stawski said, speaking on a previous incident to the Jerusalem Post. “We were repeatedly pushed aside and prevented from leaving by a group of about 20 to 30 people, some of them masked. A man who was there with his son called the police.”
Michael, a member of the German Jewish community who has roots in both Ukraine and Israel, told DW in a recent interview that a man on Subway Line 8 recognized that he was wearing a necklace that said “our hearts are captive in Gaza. Bring them home now” and insulted him in Arabic, English and German and physically harassed him: “He shouted ‘Free Gaza, Free Palestine, children murderer, woman murderer,’ all of the propaganda that Hamas shows the world.”
DW also reported that vandalism with graffiti where Stars of David appear as swastikas have been appearing on walls in Germany in addition. According to the report, there have also been instances of insults, abuse and violence targeting people appearing to be Jewish or Israeli in Germany: “Jewish business owners say that their premises have been targeted. Most supporters of the hostages claim that they rarely appear in pubic to show their solidarity.” According to the report, most Jews in Germany do everything in order to not appear Jewish in public.
DW reported that 200 Jewish sites in Germany are now under constant police surveillance, while prior to the October 7th massacre only 150 Jewish sites were under constant police protection in Germany. A spokesman for the German police declared to DW that most of the perpetrators of antisemitic attacks in Germany are not indigenous Neo-Nazis, but rather are foreign migrants who imported their antisemitic ideology from outside of Germany.
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