well ahead of the al quds march leading german politicians did urge citizens to help fight anti-semitism the government's anti semitism commissionaire even called on germans across the country to wear a traditional jewish skullcap today in solidarity. met one jewish man here in berlin who wears the skull cap also called a keeper every day but he feels he has to be careful about being seen in public with it. david pearl wears a skull cap and a prayer tussle as part of everyday life but when he goes outside he puts the tassel in a pocket and he hides the skull cap with a hat through david his wife and children have lived in berlin for 5 years after spending some time in israel there are many things he can't take for granted anymore he's experienced too much hostility for my whole city sometimes is a traffic jam on the street where i live and one time 3 arabic looking men got out of a car and they started spitting at me and harassing me saying you dirty jew who stab you today. his experience is far from unusual police statistics show that the number of anti-semitic crimes in germany rose fr

so the al quds march has been held in berlin for more than 20 years now is it inherently anti-semitic we have to consider that the main objective of the could stay as it was called all. iranian leader is that elation of israel as in its current context as a jewish state. surely disk can con of x. be expressed from the organizers of the codes they in that openness but individuals did shout yesterday jews and as we will defeat you and god as our witness they were very very aggressive sayings by individuals their regulations put in place by the police or by the by to broaden state where really. tame down the organizers and they were very much looking forward to keep this thing silent but especially conspirator a chanel series a very much present also within the organizing team and also the glorification of its by terror organizations well this year's march in berlin in particular garnered quite a lot of attention amid a sharp increase in the number of anti semitic offenses that have been reported in germany we even had german governments anti semitism commissionaire recently caution jews

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will test it al quds march is so controversial why hasn't it been banned in berlin well. that's a very good question because here in the freedom of assembly the freedom of the free speech is something that is very dear to us it is written in the constitution and in the past. various other a tear in her jeans we have seen what happens if you are strict these rights the senate up and then i'm responsible for the mosque they respond to for allowing that mosque had to make a decision between protection of jewish communities here and the freedom of assembly and i decided to go for the freedom of assembly but with these very hot restrictions but critics rising and we will see whether it will continue that way. correspondent has a vulture in berlin for us thank you so much. let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making news around the world. families of the victims of the river boat tragedy in budapest have arrived to visit the scene at least 7 south korean tourists died when a sightseeing boat sank on the river danube a search is under way to find the 21 peo