Suspicion of an attack on an ethnic background in Berlin: Solly, an Israeli resident of the city, was severely attacked on New Year’s Eve – after she wore a heart-shaped coexistence pin with the Israeli and Palestinian flags on the subway. The Israeli woman, who was left injured and with her head bandaged, was attacked by 3 young men who were sitting in the subway.The attackers woke up a woman to her – and one of them even shouted at her that Israel should be wiped out. What caught their attention was, as mentioned, the pin, which is marketed by the Canaan restaurant in the city – a restaurant owned by an Israeli-Palestinian. When Sully got off the train, the three began to follow her, with another girl by their side.
Solly claims that the girl pulled her hair, knocked her to the floor – and then the three young men hit her hard, including on her head. “The guy with the gray sweater told me in German “israel muss weg” (Israel must be erased”) several times,” she repeated. “I answered him in Arabic: ‘Lish andach mokh’ – and I took a picture of him.”
“I told him I would file a complaint against him,” Sully continued to tell. “I left the place and a young Arab woman came, told me to give her the phone – and something else in Arabic that I didn’t understand. She pulled my hair, I pulled back and she kicked me. I fell. The other three came and kicked me in the head.”