A crude anti-Israeli exhibit in Cologne, Germany -- in the heart of a bustling pedestrian zone -- does not meet the criteria of inciting hate, Rainer Wolf, a spokesman for the public prosecutor of Cologne, told the Jerusalem Post on March 1, 2010.
Wolf said the public prosecutor plans to dismiss the complaint of Gerd Buurmann, a non-Jewish theater director, who filed a grievance last week, asserting a violation of Germany's hate-crime law.
Buurmann told the Jerusalem Post that he is "horrified" by the decision and now plans to participate in a civil legal action against Walter Herrmann, the exhibitor of the anti-Israel exhibit.
Buurmann initiated legal action because the exhibit -- titled "Cologne Wailing Wall" -- shows a cartoon of a man sporting a Star of David on his bib as he devours a young Palestinian boy with a fork draped in an American flag and a knife with the word "Gaza." A blood-filled glass next to the plate appears to symbolize the blood of the child.
Dr. Marcus Meier, Director of the Society for Christian-Jewish Relations in Cologne, has filed a complaint, because that organization believes the cartoon spreads anti-Semitism.
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