Right across from the Dammtor train station in the center of Hamburg in Germany, the Moorweide park is currently occupied by an anti-Israel camp calling itself “Bridges of Resistance”. Inside this camp, rhetoric is used that questions Israel’s right to exist and fuels hatred against Jews.

To understand the profound offense of this scene, one must understand the ground these tents are pitched on. Beginning in October 1941, the Nazi regime used this exact site to systematically round up Hamburg’s Jewish population. The former Logenhaus at Moorweidenstraße 36 served as the collection point. From this open space, roughly 6,000 Jews, Sinti, and Roma were processed, stripped of their dignity, and marched to the Hannoverschen Bahnhof, destined for ghettos and extermination camps. The Moorweide is the ground where the city’s population watched their neighbors being taken away – a place where the society of Hamburg remained silent and failed completely.

To allow an anti-Israel camp on this specific soil is unacceptable; it constitutes a cynical mockery of the victims of the Shoah.

Yet, an administrative blind spot allows it to happen. Currently, only the northwestern tip of the park is officially designated as the........

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