Overview

• State prosecutors are examining at least four complaints for possible criminal incitement after a Flensburg shop displayed a sign banning Jews.
• Police ordered the notice removed from the window to prevent escalation, though local reports say it remains visible inside the store.
• Flensburg’s mayor and Germany’s antisemitism commissioner called the message a clear case of antisemitism, and the education minister urged a firm response.
• Israel’s ambassador likened the incident to 1930s boycotts, and Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that anti-Israel rhetoric is increasingly being used to justify hatred of Jews.
• Owner Hans Velten Reisch denied being a Nazi and said he was targeting supporters of Israel’s war, as the shopfront was later defaced with “Nazis out” slogans.