Israeli territory was attacked from the Gaza Strip. In Israel, the terrorist Hamas massacred Jews, people who did nothing to anyone. There are currently six hundred dead. What are the reactions to this in Germany, the country that declared the existence of Israel as its own reason of state? Horror predominates, but it is by no means unanimous. Perhaps the other reactions can be distinguished: the vile, the lying, the shameful and the stupid.
That is to say: some Arabs in Berlin celebrate terror. So were the warnings about this environment just alarmist? “Death to the Jews, Death to Israel” has long been something that could be shouted at demonstrations in Neukölln without being arrested. Is there no police law? You’d have to ask Ralf Michaels of the Max Planck Institute for Private Foreign and International Law in Hamburg, who doesn’t conduct relevant research but has long been concerned about the right of anti-Semites to speak out. Now the violent words of the Neukölln fanatics have become reality. Two Indonesian curators of the latest Documenta, Messrs. Afisina and Hartono, who recently wanted to have absolutely nothing to do with anti-Semitism, are expressly happy about it on Instagram.