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More than two dozen demonstrations critical of Israel are planned for the weekend in Germany.
According to the “Tagesspiegel” checkpoint, 25 events have been registered for Saturday so far, many of them in North Rhine-Westphalia and three in Berlin.
The organizers should therefore also come from the spectrum of the Palestinian terrorist organizations Hamas and PFLP as well as from the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
"I can imagine that we will see and hear bad things," quoted the newspaper Leonard Kaminski, a member of the Jewish community in Berlin.
Hundreds of people with Palestinian flags marched through the streets in Berlin on Friday afternoon.
They shouted "Freedom for Palestine" and "Stop the murder, stop the war".
"There were calls for violence that Tel Aviv should be attacked," reports WELT reporter Lea Freist.
The police accompanied the demonstration with more than 200 emergency services.
Berlin's Senator for the Interior promises the best possible protection for the Jewish community
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Hundreds of people also took to the streets in Dresden on Friday.
The police counted around 400 participants.
Some waved Palestine flags.
As the police announced in the evening, there were around 25 counter-demonstrators.
The occasion for the protest with Palestine flags was, in addition to the escalating violence, Nakba Day (German: catastrophe), which commemorates the flight and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what will later become Israel. Israel's declaration of independence took place on May 14, 1948. The Palestinians celebrate Nakba Day on May 15 each year.
Various pro-Palestinian groups want to take to the streets in Berlin on Saturday too.
Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) assured the Jewish community in the capital the "best possible protection".
Everything is done to protect Israeli and Jewish, but also Muslim and Palestinian institutions.
The police in Berlin announced that it would take consistent action if Israeli flags were burned again or prohibited symbols were displayed.
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The city of Frankfurt temporarily prohibited a pro-Palestinian rally planned for this Saturday in the city center.
The reason are fears about public safety, said the city's security department.
"Absolutely unacceptable"
The Federal Government's Commissioner for Integration, Annette Widmann-Mauz, sharply criticized attacks on synagogues and other anti-Semitic attacks in Germany. “Hatred, agitation and violence against Jews, Jewish symbols and institutions are absolutely unacceptable and can never be justified. The right to demonstrate and freedom of expression end where hatred of Jews begins, ”said the CDU politician of the“ Rheinische Post ”.
Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht appealed to stand on the side of Israel.
"We are all called upon to take a clear position when Jews are attacked - be it on the Internet or in real life," said the SPD politician in the newspapers of the Funke media group.
“We stand firmly on the side of Israel and express our unreserved solidarity.” The rocket fire cannot be justified by anything.
"Israel has the right to defend itself against the brutal terror of the rocket attacks."
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With a view to rallies and anti-Semitic attacks in Germany, the minister emphasized: "There is no justification for shouting anti-Semitic slogans or for burning Israeli flags."
Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters (CDU) and the Greens' candidate for Chancellor Annalena Baerbock made similar statements. "When Israel's cities and villages are attacked with hundreds of rockets, we cannot, must not and do not want to remain silent," said Grütters. Shortly before the event, Baerbock emphasized: “Anti-Semitic attacks, the burning of Israeli flags, hatred and agitation against people among us are not part of the democratic discourse, but an attack on human dignity, regardless of who or where it comes from . "