Left-wing leading candidate Eralp criticizes violent appearances at an election campaign event in Neukölln

Berlin's Left Party top candidate Elif Eralp has very clearly criticized the appearance of a rapper with calls for violence at an election campaign event organized by her party's Neukölln district association. “Like my party leader Kerstin Wolter, I strongly condemn the appearance in Neukölln. Calls for violence and the killing of people are absolutely unacceptable,” Eralp told the German Press Agency. “I am horrified, those responsible should have intervened immediately.”

The event on Friday evening on Herrfurthplatz was called “Angry at Capitalism”. Candidates from the Left for the House of Representatives and the BVV elections on September 20th as well as musicians and other artists were announced. According to media reports, a controversial rapper is said to have sung a song against Israel's war in Gaza with lines such as "Yalla Yalla Intifada West Bank, Palestine, Gaza" and "Death to the IDF". Many spectators danced and clapped, so the politicians present did not react.

Eralp: “I stand clearly for the protection of Jewish lives”

Intifada refers to uprisings in Palestine against the Israeli occupation in the late 1980s and early 2000s with numerous attacks and suicide bombings and many deaths on both sides.

Eralp further explained: “The Neukölln district association has invited the singer, I expect that it will be clarified how such a border crossing could have happened and that there are consequences. I stand clearly for the protection of Jewish lives and against any form of anti-Semitism.”