German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expresses outrage at an event last night during which anti-Semites disrupted the Israeli Embassy’s virtual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony by displaying photos of Adolf Hitler.
“What an incredible lack of respect toward survivors and toward the memory of the deceased,” Maas tweets in German. “It’s an indescribable shame!”
On Monday evening, Israel’s embassy in Berlin conducted a Zoom meeting, featuring Holocaust survivor Zvi Herschel. Some “anti-Israel activists disrupted his talk posting pictures of Hitler and shouting anti-Semitic slogans,” according to Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff.
The online event was temporarily suspended, but resumed after a short while, “without the activists and conducted in an appropriate and respectful way,” Issacharoff said on his Twitter account. “To dishonour the memory of the #Holocaust and the dignity of the survivor is beyond shame and disgrace and shows the blatant antisemitic nature of the activists.”
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