Thousands March In Berlin Against Anti-Semitism
Protesters rally against anti-semitism on October 13, 2019 in Berlin, in a reaction to the Halle synagogue shooting. Image by AXEL SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images
(JTA) — More than 10,000 people marched in Berlin against anti-Semitism and in a show of support for the victims of anti-Semitic violence in the city of Halle.
The march on Sunday left from Bebelplatz, significant as a site of Nazi book-burning, to the New Synagogue in central Berlin. Several thousand others marched on Saturday in the streets of other German cities including Hamburg and Marburg.
The march comes days after a German man with anti-Semitic and white supremacist motives in a livestreamed attack tried and failed to enter the synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle with explosives and then turned his gunfire on a woman outside and a man in a nearby kebab shop, killing both.
The marchers carried Israeli flags and banners with slogans reading “No Nazis” and “Far-right terror threatens our society,” ABC News reported.
The rally was organized by the civil rights group Unteilbar, or “Indivisible,” under the slogan “We stand united.”
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