Raids against an Islamist association suspected of supporting the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah have taken place in seven German states, the interior ministry in Berlin said on Thursday, according to AFP and News.ro.

“At a time when many Jews feel particularly threatened, we generally do not tolerate Islamist propaganda and anti-Semitic and hostile incitement towards Israel,” German Interior Minister Nancy Feser said in a statement.

The police operation is directed against the “Islamic Center in Hamburg” (IZH) and five other organizations suspected of having connections with it. Germany considers Hezbollah a “terrorist organization” and banned its activities in the country in April 2020, a move Iran angrily condemned.

On Thursday, searches took place in 54 real estate objects in various German states. The activities of IZH are aimed at spreading the “revolutionary concept” of Iranian mullahs, “suspected of contradicting the constitutional system of Germany,” the release states.

In particular, the IZH association controls the Imam Ali mosque in Hamburg, Germany’s domestic intelligence service suspects that this mosque strongly influences other mosques and Islamic associations in Germany, “to the point of taking full control” of them, the statement said. published by the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin.

“We clearly observe the spread of anti-Semitic and hostile tendencies towards Israel in various media channels,” he adds regarding the activities of IJ and its associated organizations.

During the commemoration of the Nazi “Kristallnacht” a week ago, Chancellor Olaf Scholz assured the Jews of Germany that the state would protect them in the context of a sharp increase in anti-Semitic manifestations in the country since the beginning of the bloody war. in the Gaza Strip.

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