Favorite candidate for Berlin mayor betrayed by note revealing her “fear” of radical pro-Palestinian activists close to her party

Having come first in the regional elections on September 20, will the radical left manage to govern in Berlin? Elif Eralp, head of the Die Linke list and favorite to become mayor, has been trying since the end of September to form a majority with the Greens and the social democrats of the SPD.

But this lawyer of Turkish origin is moving forward on a crest line. She has to deal with accusations of anti-Semitism targeting certain members of Die Linke, and controversies around the party's supposed links with criminal and terrorist circles in the capital. Here she is at the heart of a new controversy since the German magazine Der Spiegel revealed an internal memo in which she admits her “fear” of radical pro-Palestinian activists close to her party.

The chronology is as follows: on Monday October 26, Elif Eralp gives an interview to Spiegel. The next day, German journalists sent the text to its spokesperson for validation, a common practice in…