Berlin and the anti -Semitic mob: politics looks away, police cannot protect

Berlin and the anti -Semitic mob: politics looks away, police cannot protect

The article deals with the cancellation of a planned solidarity demonstration for Israel in Berlin-Neukölln due to security concerns. The decision was made by the police because it feared that the demonstration could be stopped and attacked by an aggressive mob. The area around Neukölln is Muslim and many people there have Arab and Palestinian roots. It is possible that some of them see the demonstration as a provocation because they consider Hamas as a noble resistance group. The police argue that it is already very stressed and would need 500 civil servants to protect the demonstrators. Therefore, it was urgently canceled.

This decision to cancel the demonstration clearly shows that something is wrong in this country. There is a contradiction between reason and the right to peaceful assembly. Although it is legally correct that there is no entitlement to a specific meeting place and that the police can impose requirements for changing the route for security reasons, it should still be possible for citizens to express their opinion in every Kiez in Berlin.

The state has the task of ensuring security, but apparently it is no longer able. The police are too weak to do an excessive effort for a small demonstration. It is also criticized that Berlin's politics has ignored the imported anti -Semitism of Muslims and has only focused on anti -Semitism in "BioDeutsche". It is pointed out that not only a parallel society, but also a counter -company in which anti -Semitism is omnipresent in districts such as Neukölln.

It is shameful that 78 years after the Schoah, it is still not possible to demonstrate for Israel everywhere in the German capital. The fact that a rally had to be canceled for the victims of Hamas shows that there is still a lot to do to fight anti -Semitism and discrimination in Berlin.

according to a report by www.berliner-zeitung.de