Anti-Semitic Al-Kuds Day advertised in “diversity calendar” of Berlin police

The Berlin police have listed the anti-Israeli Al-Kuds Day in their “Calendar of Diversity” 2022. As the newspaper B.Z. reports, the day proclaimed by the Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is listed in the calendar in a series of dates with Christmas, the Jewish New Year or the Hindu Festival of Lights.

Anti-Semitic and Islamist slogans had repeatedly been shouted at the Al-Kuds march in Berlin in recent years. Al-Kuds Day is celebrated annually on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. In the past two years, the rally was cancelled. It has not yet been decided whether it will take place this year.

“The diversity calendar is actually a good idea, but the Al-Kuds Day in the diversity calendar is a terrible blunder and the opposite of diversity competence,” Green Party politician Volker Beck criticised to the paper. Beck is the executive director of the Tikvah Institute, which campaigns against anti-Semitism. Al-Kuds Day, he said, was a “day of hatred and incitement”. Israel-hatred and anti-Semitism should not be accepted as part of diversity. The calendar must be withdrawn and revised immediately.

The approximately 26,000 Berlin police officers have the possibility to download the “diversity calendar” from the intranet. The police have not yet commented on the accusations.

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