US EditionFlensburg Shop's 'No Jews' Sign Prompts Prosecutors' Review for Incitement
The shop owner claims the sign was a protest against Israel's military actions, amid an 83% rise in antisemitic incidents in Germany recorded in 2024, officials said.
- An antisemitic sign in Flensburg, Germany, stated, 'Jews are banned from entering here!' and sparked public outrage.
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid threatened legal action against the shopkeeper, Hans Velten Reisch, claiming he would sue 'for every cent he owns.'
- Felix Klein, Germany's federal commissioner for combating antisemitism, condemned the incident as a 'very clear case of anti-Semitism.'
- Guy Katz launched an initiative called 'DACH Against Hate' with over 200 organizations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to combat antisemitism.
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Even today, 80 years after the end of the Second World War, anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish hostility seem to continue to be acceptable in certain circles in Germany. So also in Flensburg, where a shopkeeper gave Jewish people a flat ban. The mainstream suppressed in its coverage: Right next to it was a Palestine flag. Judenhass comes together here with the support of an Islamist terrorist organization. A comment by Heinz Steiner Sometimes one bel…
The house ban for Jews in a Flensburg business continues to cause indignation. Schleswig-Holstein's Landtag president Herbst (CDU) said it was unbearable to have to perceive such a display in public space. The Orthodox Rabbinical Conference Germany also protested.
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