Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has expressed outrage at an event during which BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) activists disrupted a virtual Holocaust Remembrance Day event organised by the Israeli embassy in Berlin by displaying photos of Adolf Hitler.
Maas called the incident ‘’an incredible lack of respect toward survivors and toward the memory of the deceased.’’ “It’s an indescribable shame!,” he tweeted.
The Zoom meeting featured Holocaust survivor Zvi Herschel. Some “anti-Israel activists began spamming the Zoom stream with images of Hitler, pornographic content and anti-Israeli as well as anti-Semitic slogans.
The event, however, had been disrupted from the start after several BDS activists began spamming the Zoom stream with images of Hitler, pornographic content and anti-Israeli as well as anti-Semitic slogans.
The online event was temporarily suspended, but resumed after a short while, “without the activists and conducted in an appropriate and respectful way,” Israel’s ambassador in Berlin, Jeremy Issacharoff, said.
“Unfortunately, even today, and even on Holocaust Remembrance Day in Germany, these shocking incidents of anti-Semitism still occur,” said Foreign Minister Israel Katz. “It is our duty, as representatives of the Israeli political world, to fight anti-Semitism wherever it raises its head. ”