On the anniversary of the Hamas massacre, Greta Thunberg traveled to Berlin for the pro-Palestine demo. A politician demands consequences. And the authorities are targeting the activist.
The domestic policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Alexander Throm, is calling for an entry ban for the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. “Anyone who comes here to agitate against Israel and denigrate our police has no place in Germany,” the CDU politician told the “Bild” newspaper. “I think it is not only appropriate, but even necessary, for the Federal Minister of the Interior to issue an entry ban against this anti-Semite in the future.”
Thunberg was at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin on Monday, the anniversary of the Hamas massacre in Israel, where, according to police reports, participants also threw bottles at police officers and chanted anti-Israel slogans. In one of them, the actions of the German police during the pro-Palestinian protests. She also repeated her accusation of genocide against Israel and said that the German state was complicit in it.
Greta Thunberg classified as a violent person
On Tuesday, the police in Dortmund broke up a pro-Palestinian protest camp because of Greta Thunsberg’s announced visit. The prominent activist may have attracted more people to the protest camp than originally permitted, according to the argument.
“The recent events in connection with Thunberg led to the assessment that she was a violent participant. After intensive examination as part of a danger forecast, the Dortmund police headquarters ordered the ban and the associated dissolution of the meeting,” said the officials .
Thom accused Thunberg of abusing the prominence she had acquired for climate protection. “That’s why I also call on Fridays for Future to expressly distance themselves from Thunberg. If they don’t do this, in my opinion they have lost all credibility in the democratic debate.”
Thunberg criticized for pro-Palestine position
Thunberg became known worldwide through her “school strike for the climate”. The international climate movement Fridays for Future emerged from their protest. Since the Islamist Hamas attack on Israel a year ago and Israel’s subsequent military action in the Gaza Strip, it has repeatedly expressed solidarity with the Palestinians and accused Israel of genocide.
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Critics accuse the Swede of being one-sided. The federal government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, called Thunberg’s statements on the Middle East conflict last year “anti-Israel and also anti-Semitic due to the hidden denial of Israel’s right to exist.”
The German activists from Fridays for Future had already distanced themselves from her last year because of Thunberg’s clear partisanship in the Gaza war. Fridays for Future in Germany operates as an independent organization and has “long since outgrown Greta as a person”. There is no place for anti-Semitism in the movement.
Source: Stern
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