Germany
He said “Shalom” and “then something that sounded threatening.”
The 23-year-old was confronted by three men in a park; it was the third anti-Semitic incident reported this week in Germany.
The popular publication in Germany, “Bild,” called on Berlin to end its kowtowing to Iran.
Germany’s political parties shut down a motion to ban Hezbollah in large part because of the messenger: the right-wing Alternative fur Deutschland.
In February, the United Kingdom officially designated Hezbollah as a terrorist group, joining 12 other countries that have done the same.
“There is no parallel in the world to this phenomenon of hypocrisy and ingratitude, in which these professors earn their living at the expense of the Israeli taxpayer yet at the same time work to boycott and slander them,” said Matan Peleg, CEO of Israeli NGO Im Tirtzu.
In his first trial, all 22 Nazi officials who were tried for murdering more than 1 million people were convicted.
“We have more obligation than others,” said Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess. “The whole company was built up by the Nazi regime.”
“Hezbollah’s goal is the destruction of Israel and the Jews, and we should not be offering a safe haven for them to hide in Germany and finance their armed struggle in Lebanon against Israel from our territory,” senior AfD MP Beatrix von Storch, said in a statement.
Some 40 rabbis, accompanied by the mayor, walked the streets of Ulm in defiance of the warning from Germany’s anti-Semitism czar just days earlier for Jews not to wear a “kipah” in public.
German imam Said Abu Hafs: “The Jews are miserly, greedy, enamored of gold; they are arrogant and take people’s money unlawfully.”
His statements have indeed triggered discussion, in addition to calls for defying the recommendation.