Overview

• Police took down the sign from the window in Flensburg to prevent escalation, though local reports say it remains displayed inside the shop.
• Schleswig-Holstein’s antisemitism commissioner Gerhard Ulrich filed a criminal complaint for incitement of hatred, and prosecutors are examining multiple citizen complaints.
• Flensburg’s mayor and Germany’s federal antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein condemned the message as evoking Nazi-era boycotts, with Education Minister Karin Prien urging a firm legal response.
• Israel’s ambassador Ron Prosor compared the episode to the 1930s, and Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said he would sue the shopkeeper.
• The owner, Hans Velten Reisch, defended the notice as a backlash over the Gaza war and denied being a Nazi, while the storefront was defaced with counter-slogans such as “Nazis out.”