Well these things happen. Easy mistake to make:
Roughly 1,000 pupils and left-wing activists who unlawfully occupied Humboldt University (HU) and some of whom destroyed an anti-Nazi exhibition on Wednesday were reacting to the university’s close ties to Israel, the university president has said. Christoph Markschies told The Jerusalem Post that one of the protesters in the lobby of the university said “Damn Israel” when asked by another student to “stop” vandalizing the exhibit “Betrayed and Sold,” about the plundering of Jewish businesses under the Nazis. “Friendship with Israel is part of the HU’s identity,” said Markschies, adding that “no one can tell me that the exhibit was damaged because it was a mistake.”… He said the vandalism and alleged statement were not driven by anti-Semitism, but that the expression “Damn Israel” highlights the “problems of the State of Israel.”
In today’s Germany academics insist that the Palestinians are the real victims of the Holocaust. The German Parliament can’t even bring itself to unto unequivocally condemn Kristallnacht. But no worries: those are merely anti-Zionist stances on accont of how Kristallnacht and the Holocaust were targeted at Israel.
References:
* German kids destroy anti-Nazi exhibit [JPost]
* German intellectuals: Israel’s creation made Palestinians victims of Holocaust [Ha'aretz]
* German Politicians Divided over Anti-Semitism [Speigel]
Previously:
* Wherein We Almost Entirely Decline To Comment On Iran’s Major Trading Partner
* Merkel To Putin: Iran Is Kind Of Crazy, Shouldn’t Get Nukes (Plus: Yup, Operation Orchard Hit A Nuke Facility)
* Germans Hosting Concert Of Nazi Icon In Nazi Concert Hall To Raise Money For Modern Day Nazis
