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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has strongly condemned anti-Semitic attacks and rallies in Germany.
Although the federal government respects the right to demonstrate, Merkel said on Friday through her spokesman Steffen Seibert.
“Anyone who uses such protests to shout out their hatred of Jews is abusing their right to demonstrate,” he said.
Anti-Semitic protests will “not tolerate our democracy”.
Seibert made it clear on behalf of the Chancellor that criticism of the actions of the Israeli government in the Middle East conflict could never justify action against Jewish citizens and institutions.
Anyone who attacks Jewish institutions in Germany "shows that he is not interested in criticizing a state and a government, but rather aggression and hatred of a religion and those who belong to it."
A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior promised that the security authorities would do “what is humanly possible” to optimize protective measures for Jewish institutions.
The authorities are investigating possible legal violations at full speed.
According to previous knowledge, the “spectrum of perpetrators” is composed “partly of the Islamist and left-wing milieu”.