Germany, Merkel condemns the anti-Semitic drift of the pro-Palestinian marches: “Punishing those responsible”

BERLIN – The truce in Israel also seems to have tempered the excesses of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Germany. In Berlin, the weekend marches were peaceful and without the burning of Israeli flags and the “Jewish shit” chants that had polluted the German protests in the same days as the fiercest clashes in Gaza. But after the arrests and anti-Semitic slogans of recent days, it was Angela Merkel in his traditional weekend video podcast to reiterate with harsh words his condemnation of the anti-Semitism that emerged in the protests: “Whoever spreads hatred against Jews in the streets, who offends the people, puts himself outside the Constitution.