A 79-year-old woman from the kibbutz movement in Israel was massively disrupted by anti-Israel activists during a lecture in Hanover.
According to the ver.di union on Friday, the group had unexpectedly appeared in the lecture hall the evening before. They disrupted the event with shouts, video recordings, insults and loud music. The police eventually had to intervene. A police spokeswoman confirmed the incident to the Evangelical Press Service (epd) on Friday.
Ver.di and the German-Israeli Society (DIG) in Hanover, as organizers, had exercised their house rules and tried to remove the troublemakers from the hall, she said. When that did not have the desired effect, the police were called in.
Report of insult
State security is now investigating. According to the spokeswoman, the heckling itself was not criminally relevant. However, a complaint has been filed against a 24-year-old for insult.
The organizers condemned the disruptions. The ver.di regional director Andrea Wemheuer spoke of a new dimension of attacks on Israeli citizens and those who supported them. “We have a zero tolerance policy for anti-Semitic slogans,” she emphasized. epd/yes
