German Court, Student, and Operation Cast Lead...all together now, lets stick-up for the student!

Over at Atlas Shrugs Pamella Geller has a story that headlines "Student Fined 300 Euros for Displaying Israeli Flag in Germany" and goes on to describe the student's dilemma. I've re-posted Pam's story here with the addition of a video that will give you a better understanding of why the German court was on the wrong side. It's the Muslims they should have condemned...there's no question that these Muslims are extraordinary mean racist people and that they will do anything to advance their cause. Further, these things are going on in Europe and you can bet your sweet bippy they will occur in the good ole USA as Obama is a friend of Hamas. The video explains "Operation Cast Lead" mentioned in the story. ~ Norman E. Hooben

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Student Fined 300 Euros for Displaying Israeli Flag in Germany

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Of course the case might have been made that the German police made a tragic mistake in removing the Israel flags from private homes in the midst of the chaos of the death to the Jews marches back in January. But no. The Germans are consistent in their decadence and moral bankruptcy. "Could anyone imagine the German police going into a private home to remove a Hamas flag?"

Student fined for Israel flag in Germany Jerusalem Post hat tip Hal

A local district court in the West German city of Bochum fined a student 300 Euros on Wednesday for displaying an Israel flag at a demonstration organized by Muslim organizations against the IDF Operation Cast Lead in January. According to Der Westen, a regional paper in Bochum, the public prosecutor termed the Israeli flag as "provoking" within a special situation.

An anti-Israel protest [illustrative]

The 30-year-old student, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she fears for her safety due to "massive problems with Nazis", told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that the "Israeli flag is a provocation for the anti-Semites." She asked rhetorically, "What is provocative about an Israel flag?" The public prosecutor in Bochum was not available for an immediate comment on the case.
According to Der Westen, the local district court judge deemed the protest of the five activists expressing solidarity with Israel as a "dangerous situation."
A spokesman for the district court, Volker Talarowski, told the Post that there was a "violation of the right to assembly" and the court's decision was issued "independent of a political motivation." Talarowski added that the pro-Israel demonstrators failed to register their protest 48 hours before the event.
Yet the student, who is appealing the fine, said a special regulation permits "spontaneous" demonstrations without a pre-registration. In response to a hardcore anti-Israeli demonstration in Bochum attended by 1,600 protesters on January 17, the student, along with four pro-Israeli activists, displayed a banner stating "Against anti-Semitism and fascism: Solidarity with Israel" as well as the Israel flag. She told the Post that pro-Palestinian supporters "compared Israel with Nazi Germany." Chants of "children murderer Israel" and "Israel terrorist" filled the protest as well as a banner reading "stop the Holocaust in Gaza."
"There is no basis" to draw a parallel between Nazi Germany and Israel, she said. "A Holocaust did not take place in Gaza. Israel defended its territory from rocket fire" emanating from Hamas, added the student. She termed the argument comparing the Israeli military operation in Gaza with the Holocaust as anti-Semitic.

In the Der Westen news report, the student said there is a "confusion of perpetrator and victim. You can only call that anti-Semitism." She told the Post that the protestors in Bochum designated Israelis as Nazis and the Palestinians in Gaza as Jews during the Third Reich.

During Operation Cast Lead over 100,000 mainly German Muslims protested across German cities and frequently compared Israel with the Hitler movement. The European Union's working definition of anti-Semitism defines such comparisons between the Nazis and the Jewish state as a modern manifestation of anti-Semitism, largely because the parallel delegitimizes Israel's right to exist.