“No Jewish Flag” Allowed in Berlin Over Fear of Muslim Violence

“No Jewish Flag” Allowed in Berlin Over Fear of Muslim Violence



You would think that Germans of all people would have learned a lesson from recent history. How does that little ditty go, “First they came for the Jews…”http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/German-police-remove-Israeli-flag-from-soccer-game-for-fear-of-Palestinian-violence-399289

Almog Cohen, the Israeli national team player who is also a member of 2. Bundesliga side Ingolstadt, tweeted: “Today, an Israeli flag was removed during an away match against Union Berlin. This was a flag brought by German fans which was removed by local security guards. ‘No Jewish flags,’ they said. This is the only pitch in which this has happened.”

According to the German daily Bild, the decision to remove the “Jewish banner” was made due to “fear of Palestinian violence.”

“I saw how our fans were taking down the Israeli flag,” Cohen told Bild. “They told me that they have done so at the direction of the police.”

When Cohen was told that the police didn’t want political symbols waved at the match, he then asked if other flags were also banned.

“No, only the Jewish flag,”. Cohen was told.

This keeps happening to Israeli flags in Germany. It’s not a one time event.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/nazism-returns-to-germany/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/01/14/anger-spreads-after-german-police-remove-israeli-flag-during-pro-palestinian/

People in Duisburg, Germany, and across the world, are angry after police admitted to removing an Israeli flag that hanging in a student’s window during a pro-Palestinian protest, Spiegel Online reported.

The western German city’s police chief issued an apology for using force to storm the student’s apartment Saturday to remove the flag because 10,000 demonstrators protesting the Gaza Strip invasion in the street below were angered by it.

The protest was organized by the Islamist group Milli Görüs, which has been monitored by German intelligence agencies for potentially radical behavior.

The student who hung the flag, whom the paper did not identify in order to protect him, likened the crowd’s reaction to the Israeli symbol to that of a “lynch mob,” Speigel reported.

Video of police officers tearing down the flags has been widely circulated on YouTube.

Duisburg chief of police, Rolf Cebin, publicly apologized for the incident.

“I deeply regret the fact that, especially, the feelings of Jewish people were hurt,” he was quoted by Spiegel. “From the standpoint of the present, it was the wrong decision.”

That was 2009 and here we are again.


by Daniel Greenfield