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Thu Apr 23, 2020, 05:42 AM Apr 2020

(Jewish Group) Berlin Holocaust remembrance event hacked with anti-Semitic messages and images

An online Holocaust remembrance event coordinated by Israel’s embassy in Berlin was hacked with vulgar anti-Semitic images and messages.

Monday evening’s memorial event, a conversation held on the Zoom platform with Dutch-born Holocaust survivor Zvi Herschel, had to be halted shortly after its start when virtual intruders showed images of Hitler and pornographic images. Some also shouted anti-Semitic slogans and yelled “Palestine.”

Berlin police are investigating the “Zoombombing” — a trend that has plagued open events around the world as they have moved online in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. No charges have been filed.

In a tweet, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Jeremy Issacharoff, called the incident “an indescribable shame.”

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