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Young Men Throw Firecracker at Israeli Reporter in Germany

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November 26, 2018
Screenshot from Twitter.

A group of young men threw a firecracker at an Israeli reporter over the weekend as she was on camera in Berlin.

The reporter, Antonia Yamin from the public broadcasting network Kan, can be seen speaking in Hebrew about Brexit when the four men walk by the camera; one of them sticks his hand in front of the camera.

Yamin then stops and angrily asks them to leave, but then she and her cameraman suddenly run away as a firecracker is thrown at them.

“As you can see on the video you can’t report in Hebrew in Neukölln, Berlin without being disturbed and without people throwing Firecrackers at you,” Yamin tweeted on Sunday.

In subsequent tweets on Monday, Yamin explained that the police asked for a statement and she said that while she is not one to assume anti-Semitism, she thinks the group attacked her because she was speaking Hebrew:

Yamin also told Vice, “I only go to Neukölln when I need to for work. I feel uncomfortable in those neighborhoods when I’m speaking Hebrew and holding a microphone with Hebrew script on it.”

Neukölln has a large immigrant population; the German Bild paper is reporting that the four male youths were immigrants.

Anti-Semitic incidents increased by 55 percent in 2017.

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