{"id":98303,"date":"2022-09-10T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=98303"},"modified":"2022-09-10T14:10:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T12:10:25","slug":"20-00-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=98303","title":{"rendered":"German Police Fine Jewish Activist For Staging Pro-Israel Counter-Demonstration at Palestinian Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>German Police Fine Jewish Activist For Staging Pro-Israel Counter-Demonstration at Palestinian Rally<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ben Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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(Illustrative) Pro-Palestinian demonstrators clash with German riot police in Berlin on May 15, 2021. Photo: Reuters\/Christian Mang<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A Jewish communal official in the German city of Hanover has accused the local authorities of \u201ccriminalizing\u201d the fight against antisemitism after she was fined for organizing a counter-demonstration at a pro-Palestinian rally where her father-in-law was assaulted for carrying an Israeli flag.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe fight against antisemitism is being criminalized,\u201d Rebecca Seidler \u2014 the director of the Liberal Jewish Community in Hanover \u2014 told the Welt<\/em> news outlet during an extensive interview this week. \u201cWe are being made into perpetrators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Seidler recalled that on Apr. 23, she and her father-in-law, Michael H\u00f6ntsch, arrived at the pro-Palestinian rally in downtown Hanover to register their protest and observe the proceedings alongside six other colleagues. When the 67-year-old H\u00f6ntsch \u2014 a former member of parliament in the state of Lower Saxony for the center-left SPD Party \u2014 silently waved an Israeli flag, he was violently pushed to the ground by a demonstrator. Police later arrested the 55-year-old assailant and have initiated a criminal prosecution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seidler said that after the attack on her father-in-law, who walks with the aid of a cane, she spoke with the local police commander, urging him to de-escalate the increasingly heated situation. Because the official claimed that Seidler had organized her counter-protest without giving advance notice, she \u201cwas then informed that there would be a lawsuit against me, which irritated me a lot,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would have liked the police to have protected my father-in-law from attack, instead of underestimating the situation,\u201d  Seidler added. \u201cAnd I wanted the pro-Palestinian rally to have been shut down after the attack.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Seidler said she was examining whether to lodge an appeal against the fine of 128.50 Euros (about $125). She noted that despite a notice being read out at the commencement of the pro-Palestinian rally warning against antisemitic slogans, \u201cnone of that was complied with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A video of the rally showed several inflammatory slogans being chanted at the rally, among them \u201cchild murderer Israel\u201d and \u201cZionism is racism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Hanover police department told Welt<\/em> that the rally had been peaceful until the counter-demonstrators had turned up \u201cwaving an Israeli flag.\u201d The spokesperson asserted that tensions between the two groups of demonstrators had followed as a result, and that they were consequently separated. He added that \u201cadministrative offense proceedings for violating the Lower Saxony Assembly Act\u201d had been initiated against Seidler.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other German Jewish leaders voiced support for Seidler. \u201cIt is a fatal sign for civil society engagement when it is criminalized,\u201d said Elio Adler, the chair of the German-Jewish Values Initiative, an NGO. \u201cThe police should have shown more tact at that moment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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German Police Fine Jewish Activist For Staging Pro-Israel Counter-Demonstration at Palestinian Rally Ben Cohen (Illustrative) Pro-Palestinian demonstrators clash with German riot police in Berlin on May 15, 2021. Photo: Reuters\/Christian Mang A Jewish communal official in the German city of Hanover has accused the local authorities of \u201ccriminalizing\u201d the fight against antisemitism after she was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98317,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98303\/revisions\/98317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}