A Berlin school principal condemned the actions of a student who praised Adolf Hitler for having murdered Jews.
Andreas Huth, director of the Ernst Reuter High School, announced on the school’s website that the incident revealed an “anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attitude against which we have reacted, and will continue to do so.”
The incident, which comes amid other reports of anti-Semitism in Germany, including by a man outside a Jewish-owned restaurant in Berlin, reportedly occurred during a lunch break on Dec. 13, when teenagers were discussing Israel.
According to the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, a Jewish student, 18, said he did not favor a Palestinian state. Several classmates of Arab background then surrounded him, with witnesses reporting that one girl yelled “Hitler was good! Because he killed the Jews.” The Jewish student told the Juedische Allgemeine weekly that he also heard someone say “You are child killers” and “they should cut off your heads.”
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En professor i skolens skole fordømte handlinger fra en elev, der roste adolf Hitler for at have myrdet jøder.
Andreas Huth, direktør for Ernst Reuter High School, annoncerede på skolens hjemmeside, at hændelsen afslørede en “antisemitisk, anti-jødisk og anti-israelsk holdning, som vi har reageret på og vil fortsætte med at gøre”.
Hændelsen, der kommer i forbindelse med andre rapporter om antisemitisme i Tyskland, herunder af en mand uden for en jødisk ejet restaurant i Berlin, angiveligt fandt sted under en frokostpause den 13. december, da teenagere diskuterede Israel.
Ifølge Berliner Zeitung-avisen sagde en jødisk studerende, 18, at han ikke favoriserede en palæstinensisk stat. Flere klassekammerater af arabisk baggrund omringede ham derefter med vidner, der rapporterede, at en pige råbte “Hitler var god! Fordi han dræbte jøderne. “Den jødiske studerende fortalte Juedische Allgemeine hver uge, at han også hørte nogen sige” Du er børnedræber “og” de skulle afskære dit hoved. “