A German Jewish woman went to a hearing concerning a business owner who had an apparently illegal anti-Jewish sign. And at that hearing about antisemitism, authorities made the Jewish woman remove her Star of David before entering the courtroom — and give it to the guards. The Nazis have returned to Germany.
Keren Stopka was going into the Flensburg District Court in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein on June 1 when staff at a security checkpoint claimed she was wearing a symbol that could be disruptive to the legal proceedings. This was her necklace featuring the Star of David. If she had been wearing a hijab or Palestinian flag necklace, would the courthouse guards have been as critical? And how could it possibly be disruptive for a woman to wear a small necklace with a Jewish symbol while watching a trial in a courtroom?
Stopka spoke with German newspaper Bild in comments that The Algemeiner translated. “I had to remove my entire Star of David necklace and hand it over. I wasn’t even permitted to keep it under my shirt or in my pocket. I can’t remember the last time I took it off — it’s part of who I am,” she exclaimed. How outrageous that they confiscated her property in a blatantly religiously biased act.
The reason Stopka was at the court was to hear the trial of Hans-Velten Reisch, who was charged with incitement to hatred. He had put up an antisemitic sign in his second-hand shop that reached a new level of illogical inanity: “Jews are not allowed to enter this place!!! Nothing personal, no antisemitism. I just can’t stand you.”
Unsurprisingly, the judge found him guilty, saying this was not freedom of speech, though he only gave Reisch a six month suspended prison sentence, which means Reisch isn’t actually going to serve any time unless he does anything else crazy. But the real problem is that the German government seems to have similar sentiments to those Reisch expressed.
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In Berlin, in 2024, police were warning Jews not to enter Arab-majority areas of the city, because there are so many terrorist-aligned Muslims there who see a yarmulke and turn violent. The onus is on Jews, not on terrorist migrants. There were countless anti-Israel riots in Germany following the Hamas Oct. 7 atrocities in Israel. One September 2025 march in Berlin drew 50,000 antisemites. While the German government hasn’t recognized the terrorist fiction of a “state of Palestine,” it has pressured Israel to offer the so-called Palestinians a state (which the Arabs have been rejecting since before they called themselves Palestinians in favor of endless jihad).
Do you see that tiny RED dot? That’s Israel, the only Jewish state in the world.
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) May 27, 2026
They want you to believe that the tiny RED dot is the oppressor and colonizer, and that the GREEN Muslim countries surrounding it are the oppressed.
Do they realize how ridiculous they sound? pic.twitter.com/sIaYmHMHJu
As recently as March, Germany’s government withdrew its support for Israel in a bogus “genocide” case at the International Court of Justice.
Reisch is a small-time wacko. But as the courthouse guards made very clear to Stopka, the antisemitism problem in Germany is much greater than a single shop owner.
