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Pro-Israel Rally At Berlin's Brandenburg Gate
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https://www.dw.com/en/pro-israel-rally-at-berlins-brandenburg-gate/a-67179304?
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday joined a broad coalition of participants at Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg Gate for a massive rally in support of Israel and decrying antisemitism.
Relatives of Israelis taken hostage by the Islamist group Hamas — which controls the Gaza Strip and is labeled a terrorist organization by Israel, Germany, the European Union and the United States — were also on the list of speakers.
The Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, was dedicated to the roughly 1,400 Israeli civilians killed in Hamas’ brutal October 7 attack on Israel’s border region to the Gaza Strip.
Beck, who called Hamas’ slaughter of civilians on October 7, “a turning point in the history of conflict in the Middle East,” said, “We are shocked that these days Jews in Germany are the target of hate, of attacks, of violence and threats.”
Germany has long struggled with rising antisemitism and the days following Hamas’ attack and Israel’s subsequent counterattacks on Gaza have seen pro-Palestinian groups clash with police, Jewish residences and institutions graffitied with the Star of David and a synagogue attacked with Molotov cocktails.
Earlier on Sunday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was, “deeply outraged by the way in which antisemitic hatred and inhuman agitation have been breaking out since that fateful October 7 — on the internet, in social media around the world, and shamefully, also here in Germany.”
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