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The Star of David is stamped on the doors of some houses in Berlin as a chilling reminder of the persecution Jews suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
Four cases have been reported to German police in recent days, escalating concerns about the safety of Jews in the German capital.
In one incident, a Jewish resident arrived home on Thursday evening to find graffiti painted on her door. "I speak Hebrew, I talk on the phone in Hebrew and I wear a Star of David," the young woman told Bild newspaper. "I really thought about whether I should stay home."
Of the three other incidents reported on Saturday, police have confirmed that at least one Jewish person lived in the building.
"It is now the subject of our investigation to find out if the other houses have a Jewish resident and if the incidents are connected," a police spokesman said.
Images posted on social media showed a blue Star of David painted on a white door.
The incidents, which are a crime under German law, appear to be a deliberate imitation of the anti-Semitic persecution of Jews during the 1930s, when Nazi brownshirts painted the Star of David on the doors and windows of Jewish businesses in an attempt to discourage Britons from shopping there.
It came after one of the country's top spies warned that Hamas sympathizers could stage terror attacks on Jewish buildings.
Hamas supporters "do not stop at demonstrating and using hate speech ... but can carry out specific attacks against Jewish and Israeli buildings and individuals," said Stephan Kramer, the head of Jewish intelligence.
Speaking to the Handelsblatt newspaper, Kramer said the war in Israel could also motivate other Islamist groups to "intensify" their activities, saying they see "the whole of Germany as an enemy of Muslims".
He said that the protests of pro-Palestinian groups in German streets after the terrorist attacks by Hamas proved that "a new level of escalation and lack of restraint has definitely been reached in this country."
It is not clear whether Kramer was speaking based on specific information received by German intelligence services.
'A rusty dagger'
Meanwhile, Germany's largest network of mosques has denied mentioning Israel in Friday prayers after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly encouraged them to describe Israel as a "rusty dagger" in the heart of the Muslim world. .
Ditib, an organization that runs more than 2,000 mosques in Germany and whose imams are on the Turkish government's payroll, was ordered by Ankara to deliver a sermon condemning Israel for committing "the worst tyranny in history," according to a report in German from Bild newspaper.
The sermon was written by Erdogan's chief cleric and sent to all mosques under the control of the Turkish state. But Ditib said Israel was not mentioned in any of his mosques during Friday sermons.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a ban on all Hamas activities in Germany on Thursday, a move Berlin said was intended to send "a signal that all forms of support for Hamas terror are prohibited."
Despite the Islamic group being listed by the EU as a terrorist organization since 2003, Berlin only banned public displays of support for Hamas in 2021.
Since then, it has been illegal to publicly wave Hamas flags or distribute the group's propaganda material.
In their latest report on internal security threats, Germany's domestic intelligence service, the BfV, does not list Hamas as an organizational presence in the country.
Over the past two decades, several charities have been banned in Germany on suspicion of being fronts for fundraising organizations for the Islamic terrorist group.
On Friday, German police said there was an "increased threat level" facing Jewish and Israeli public buildings, and the police presence outside mosques and Jewish schools has increased across the country.
Since the terrorist attacks last weekend, pro-Palestinian marches have been banned in several German cities, but protesters have taken to the streets nonetheless./ The Telegraph
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