After the autumn holidays, everyday school life in Berlin begins and concerns about anti -Semitism and violence are increasing

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It was only a few days ago when Berlin's educational senator Katharina Günther-Lüsch said: "We currently have a breather at the schools." It sounded equally relieved as tense. This breather is now over - for the senator, but above all for the pupils, the teachers of the 840 general education schools in the capital: The first day of school is on Monday after the autumn holidays.

of the almost 400,000 Berlin students, many will have had a good time in the past two weeks and have recovered, maybe even traveled. However, tens of thousands will have been confronted again during this time with dramatic and traumatizing pictures, conversations and impressions. You will always pay attention to developments in the Middle East with at least one ear and an eye: how are the families, friends, acquaintances? In Israel and in Gaza.

The Jewish children and adolescents of Berlin, who have to move in an anti -Semitic environment, are primarily to be felt in the German capital in an anti -Semitic environment that they were so explosive and threatening. And then of course the Arab children and adolescents of Berlin, many of whom grow up with grief, fear and, above all, with anger.

Even before the holidays, it became clear how the war in Berlin affects. Many schools reported anti -Semitic propaganda in class and in the schoolyards. At the Ernst Abbe School in Neukölln, a teacher was beaten when he wanted to ban a young person the swiveling of a Palestinian flag.

The CDU's senator gave the Berlin schools a guide shortly afterwards, caused legal certainty, as it calls it: When can the school management be able to intervene? So what is not allowed? The answer is short: everything that disturbs school peace. If in doubt, showing a flag or other symbols such as a Palestinian cloth can also be counted.

to say it unequivocally: anti -Semitism is not an opinion, but a crime. Anyone who lives here has to adhere to local rules. Otherwise it must either be pursued with the means of the rule of law or - if he is not a German - leave the country.

And of course it is right to protect school peace. It is only possible to talk to a reasonably pacified atmosphere. About the fact that there are many different perspectives and attitudes towards war in Middle East - and that you have to live with these differences in the multi -ethnic city of Berlin. Because there is no other way.

But at the same time sanctions alone are not enough. So there are urgent questions: Where is the redemption of Kai Wegner's - completely correct - saying that it is "Berlin boys" who are on the propalestinic demonstrations and that you have to "achieve"? How does he want to achieve them? And what does his party friend Günther-Lüsch, who is also responsible for untraconate prevention work, do it for strengthening and emphasizing the cohesion?

So what does it mean if the governing mayor keeps saying that the city should "not be split"? How does Wegner's CDU position itself? When the domestic politician Burkard Dregger says that he considers all preventive measures against anti -Semitism in recent years and decades to fail, it initially sounds like a drastic snapshot. But the results of prevention work are not measurable. In any case, you need impulses, initiatives, suggestions for what to do. Repression alone is not enough. Politics have to act, not only may react and even resign in the end.

and this is still the Kufiya or Kefije, the Pali towel, as Leger is said. The long-time Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has also made the traditional headgear of many Arabic communities in the western world, which could be taken by his anti-colonial style. Depending on the reading, Arafat was a freedom or terrorist, later a politician, then even Nobel Peace Prize winners. Perhaps most fateful for his Palestinians, at the end of his political life he threw the chance to create his own state. Were to blame - of course! - all other. From the destroyer to the hope of hope back to the destroyer. What a dazzling historical figure.

Yes, Arafat was always hater of Jews and Israel. For many, "his" cloth was just lifestyle and garment, now it is only a political sign and expressions of solidarity. However, it is not a symbol like the swastika.

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