Overview

• Posters in Berlin explicitly call for the murder of journalist Nicholas Potter, labeling him with slurs and using a red Hamas triangle to mark him as a target.
• The threats stem from Potter's pro-Israel reporting and investigations into antisemitism, which have made him a target for militant activists since December 2024.
• The campaign escalated from online harassment to physical threats, including stickers in March and multilingual posters discovered near an activist-occupied building on April 14.
• Leading organizations, including taz and PEN Berlin, have condemned the campaign as a severe attack on press freedom and demanded action from security authorities.
• The use of extremist rhetoric and imagery in the threats highlights broader tensions in Germany over the Israel-Palestine conflict and concerns about antisemitism in activist movements.