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Anti-Jewish slogans returning to the streets in Germany as protests sweeping the Middle East Europe.
People have a banner during a demonstration in the center of Berlin to protest Israeli military actions in Gaza The banner reads Stop the war against Israel in Gaza Thomas Peter Reuters.
BERLIN Before the start of a pro-Palestinian rally one of the scores being staged almost daily here since Israel launched its offensive in Gaza organizer on a bullhorn yelled the do s and don ts as ordered last week by the Berlin police.
No burn the Israeli flag None Israel message of death and absolutely not repeating the Jewish slogan Jew loose pig out and fight only one song that rhyme in German that had become increasingly common during pro-Palestinian rallies here before being nipped in the bud by the German authorities.
Some protesters have said such things, conceded Leila El Abtah, a protester aged 29, who is the daughter of a Palestinian father and a German mother, but she insisted, even thoughtful criticism against Israel is misinterpreted here as hate speech There are more of us have talked about Israel now, she said because of what happened during the day Hitler, he made Germans nervous.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is echoing in the streets of Europe, causing an eruption of protests both peaceful and violent tensions and ratcheting across the continent on Saturday in London, 45,000 protesters gathered outside the embassy Israel, singing free Palestine in France, a nation already facing a slight increase in anti-Semitic violence before the Israeli strikes on Gaza, pro-Palestinian youths last week looted and set fire to Jewish businesses in suburban paris French authorities banned anti-Israeli demonstrations, but thousands of young demonstrators defied the edict, police engaging with stones and bottles.
Yet perhaps nowhere acts of sparkling protesters more discomfort than here in Germany, where the most radical protest songs are rattling through the streets of Berlin as ominous ghosts of the past.
Pro-Israeli demonstrations took place, too, but few have been as large or as vehemently as their pro-Palestinian counterparts for politicians, the media and the wider society German, the explosion of rage to Israel and many supporting the Jews in general is testing the limits of freedom of expression and the weight of history in the most populous nation in Western Europe.
We are aware that the world is watching how we're dealing with the situation, said the spokesman of the police in Berlin Stefan Redlich, adding that a person has been charged with incitement for allegedly shouting Heil Hitler during a demonstration is clearly part of the right of freedom of expression to criticize States conducting wars But it is one thing to criticize the way Israel is waging a war and another to call for the people of Israel hurts that's the red line.
The rage face here now bears little resemblance to the 1930s and 1940s, some ethnic Germans have joined the protests, but the majority of those who take to the streets are part of a vast pool of Muslim immigrants and their children born in Germany.
The demonstrations are Germany rattled Jewish population, which alone in Berlin rapid growth has tripled to nearly 30,000 since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
An imam at the al-Nur mosque in Berlin to study for recently calling on God smite all the Zionist Jews Last week, a group of about 30 Muslims gathered in front of an empty synagogue in Berlin and blasphemed the Semitic street.
They pursue the Jews in the streets of Berlin as if we were in 1938, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, Israel's ambassador to Germany, recently wrote in the Berliner Zeitung.
Levi Salomon, spokesman of a group campaigning against anti-Semitism in Germany, said that the Jewish community was shocked by the photographs taken at a Berlin event last week where children clothing was brushed with red paint for some, these images allude to the death of Palestinian children in Israeli strikes on Gaza but the Jewish leaders here have condemned them as a revival of anti-Semitic myths that portray Jews as child killers who used their victims of blood in religious rituals.
I watched Semitism in Germany for 20 years, but this is the worst image I have seen, said Solomon.
Even Jewish leaders here say the situation in Germany is not as bad as in neighboring France, where fierce strain of anti-Semitic violence is a sense of Jewish community under siege But there are signs that things here may also take a turn for the worse.
Tuesday night in the German city of Wuppertal, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a synagogue, it landed in the street, causing no damage Last Thursday night, Israel Dao, a shy, Orthodox Jew aged 18, was hit face on his way to a synagogue in central Berlin taos described her attacker as Arabic or Turkish.
I have heard what the protesters said, because they not walk away from here, and I heard the scream, Death to Jews said Taos But I do not think things would get this bad.
The trigger events triggered an alarm in the German company, with key political leaders and the media denouncing a new eruption of anti-Semitism should be immediately eradicated.
Kai Diekmann editor of influential German tabloid Bild chief, whose sponsors parent stays for journalists working in Israel to promote understanding of Jewish culture issued a personal appeal to all Germans to raise their voice against anti-Semitism In piece answering the rage in German streets, Bild presented a description of the groups involved under the title who are the new enemies of Jews.
The government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel lashed out against the protests in unusually blunt terms these explosions and statements are an infringement of freedom and tolerance, and an attempt to destabilize our free democratic order and we can not accept the authorities take all security attack on a Jewish institution is seriously Semitic continued accordingly and by all legal means.
The organizers of pro-Palestinian rallies say some demonstrators in the heat of the moment, have indeed gone too far They say the organizers are trying to follow the new guidelines issued by the police that prohibit the use of anti-Semitic slogans and violent, and they argue that their anger is directed against Israeli bombs, not Jews.
The Holocaust by Nazi Germany, they say, flew to Germany to its ability to be objective about Israel Some European politicians, including Prime Minister Nick Clegg of Britain openly criticized Tel Aviv for use disproportionate use of force, but Merkel pro-Palestinian critics noted here, was unwavering in his support of Israel.
Merkel shows solidarity with Israel, said Ibrahim Ibrahim, 59, a member of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations organizing committee because of the past of Germany, it can not be open-minded.
Stephanie Kirchner in Berlin and Karla Adam in London contributed to this report.
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