A Berlin Holocaust memorial honoring non-Jews who protested against the persecution of their Jewish family members was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti on Wednesday, according to the Berlin Police and European Jewish Congress.
"Jews are committing genocide," was scrawled across the Rosenstrasse protest memorial according to EJC.
A Palestinian flag and the slogan "free Palestine" was spraypainted on the ground in front of the sculptures.
Protestors take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2024.
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Gestapo deported 25 of the incarcerated people to Auschwitz, and many others were sent to labor camps.
The same night as the vandalism, an anti-Israel protest was held in the same borough, according to the Berlin Police.
Law enforcement attempted to disperse the unauthorized protest at the Berlin Central Station but reportedly responded with by chanting anti-police and anti-Israel slogans. »