Via Jerusalem Post:
The daily (B.Z.) Berliner Zeitung’s‘s popular columnist Gunnar Schupelius has called on the Berlin authorities to ban a pro-Iranian regime demonstration slated for Saturday, because the Islamists who planned the march have declared death to the Jews and the destruction of the State of Israel. Pro-Israel and anti-Iran regime groups issued a call to oppose the al-Quds Day protest.
Schupelius wrote that the when the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, established al-Quds Day in 1979 he “urged Islamists across the globe to conquer Jerusalem and destroy Israel.”
Schupelius said the “hate demo” should not be covered by freedom of speech because it incites hatred – prohibited under German law.
Germany’s hate laws bar incitement against minority groups, including German Jews, but are infrequently enforced against expressions of modern anti-Semitism.
The al-Quds demonstration has become an annual event in Berlin since 1996 and merges thousands of radical Islamists, pockets of neo-Nazis and extreme Leftists into an anti- Israel march through the center of Berlin’s main shopping district.
The columnist complained about societal indifference in Berlin toward the call to destroy Israel. “I cannot understand the indifference with which we allow hate” and that is why, he wrote, he had penned his column 10 days in advance of the al-Quds day protest.