Union leaders call for pushback against ‘incitement and hate’ as police halt march of extreme-left demonstrators chanting forbidden slogans
union leaders on Wednesday called on members to push back against “rising incitement and hate” as traditional May Day demonstrations took place amid growing tensions over local reaction to Israel’s military offensive in
Marchers moving through the left-wing Kreuzberg neighbourhood after 6pm could be heard chanting slogans such as: “From the river to the sea”; “Stop the genocide”; “Yalla yalla intifada”; and, in Arabic, “Palestine is Arab”. On Wednesday evening police stopped the march of an estimated 7,500 people several times after forbidden slogans were chanted. A group calling itself the Revolutionary Communist Party chanted “intifada until victory”.
Earlier, the head of the German Trade Union Confederation Yasmin Fahimi called for members to push back against a resurgent extreme right “until these brown agitators have been put in their place”. Expectations of a police crackdown at this year’s May Day events had been building after men marching in Hamburg on Sunday called for sharia and an Islamic “caliphate” to replace Germany’s democratic order. The demonstration was organised by Muslim Interactive, designated as an extremist organisation by German intelligence services.
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