Prof. Gerald Steinberg, the president of the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, told the Post: “The atmosphere against Israel in German society is increasingly toxic. BDS thugs shout down every Israeli that comes, preventing any discussion, and media platforms censor documentaries on antisemitism.”He continued: “At the same time Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel repeats NGO slogans to disparage Israeli democracy, and the only Israeli at a Bundestag hearing on human rights is totally discredited. More than a problem for Israel, this is Germany’s disgrace.”The delegation of Israelis and Weinstein had previously visited Bebelplatz, which is a square located on the Humboldt campus, and was the scene of the infamous book burning by Nazis of Jewish and non-Jewish works in 1933.One of the activists who disrupted the event was Israeli. Zuroff, the Wiesenthal Center’s chief Nazi-hunter, told the Post, that “the fact there are Jews among the protesters is unfortunate but nothing new. This has accompanied Jewish life for centuries.”In 2008, roughly 1,000 pupils and left-wing activists who unlawfully occupied the Berlin university and some of whom destroyed an anti-Nazi exhibition, were reacting to the university’s close ties to Israel, Humboldt’s then-president Christoph Markschies has said.He told the 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.”פעילי BDS פוצצו אמש הרצאה של ח"כ @aliza_lavie בברלין: "את רוצחת ילדים" pic.twitter.com/md2C5gMU2s
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