A German shop owner in the northern city of Flensburg placed a sign exiled on Wednesday that were banned to enter his store, causing indignation to be caused among state officials in Schleswig-Holstein.
Hans-Velten Reisch, the 60-year-old owner of the store who sells Gothic-Entensils and technical literature, placed a sign: “Jews are forbidden to come in here! Nothing personal. No anti-Semitism. You just can’t stand.”
The biggest daily newspaper in Germany, Bild, reported on Thursday that Reisch defended his anti-Jewish sign. He told the newspaper That “I look at the news every night. And when I saw what the Jews did in the Gaza Strip, I lost my patience and printed the poster.”
Israel launched a defensive war against the terrorist movement of Hamas in Gaza after Hamas slaughtered more than 1200 people on October 7, 2023, including American citizens.
Reisch said that the police told him on Wednesday evening that he had to remove the poster.
Dorit Stenke, Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Culture, denounced Reisch’s anti-Semitic sign. (Frank Molter/Picture Alliance via Getty images)
The Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Culture Dorit Stenke and Gerhard Ulrich, the controversial anti-Semitism commissioner of the State, made Reisis the task for his reported anti-Semitism and issued a joint statement about the Website of the government.
“A sign that access to Jews to a store is a frightening signal and an attack on the principles of our free coexistence,” Stenke said in the statement. She continued: “We cannot allow such things to continue in our society and have to take decisive action against it. Anti -Semitism is a threat to our democracy and should not be tolerated in any form.”
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Ulrich said: “We must stand together against any form of anti -Semitism,” adding it: “The fight against anti -Semitism is a special responsibility that we bear as Germans.”
The public prosecutor made an investigation against Reisch for incentive to hatred. Ulrich filed a criminal complaint for encouraging hatred against Reisch. According to Bild, a total of five criminal complaints were submitted against Reisch.
“Anti -Semitic hate speech when this harms not only those who are affected, but also disrupts public peace. The Flensburg incident, with its contemptuous rhetoric, is deadly reminiscent of the Nazi -hatred sowing to Jews,” Ulrich said.
The outbreak of Jews hatred in Flensburg is another example of growing anti-Semitism in Sleeswijk-Holstein, the state officials said. In 2024, 588 anti -Semitic incidents were documented, an increase of 390 percent compared to 2023.
Gerhard Ulrich, the Commissioner for Jewish life and against anti-Semitism in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, is accused of perpetuating anti-Semitism itself. (Frank Molter/Picture Alliance via Getty images)
Ulrich, however, has had to deal with accusations that he contributed to anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli feelings when he previously served as a bishop of the Protestant Church for Northern Germany.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, a Jewish human rights organization named after the legendary Nazi Hunter, warned of Ulrich’s alleged anti -Semitism in December 2022. He was shatter. In the mainstream of German society. “
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The former bishop has said: “The name ‘Israel’ is responsible for the horror and misery of this war in the middle.” He also compared Israel’s security gate with the now -defined Berlin Wall, which suggests that Israel should dismantle his safety fence.
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The anti-terrorist fence has saved the lives of thousands of Israelis from Palestinian terrorists who come from the West Bank (also known as the Biblical region of Judea and Samaria), according to officials of terrorism in Israel.
