Happiness Kotler: "The Green Character is a Black Moral Stain" | Israel today

Journalist Oshrat Kotler recounts another incident in Berlin and criticizes Germany for dealing with the Corona crisis.

Kotler recently visited Germany and stayed in Berlin as part of a family visit, but what was supposed to be a quiet vacation has become an ongoing event with echoes expressed both in Kotler's posts on Facebook and in comments from Berliners themselves, with both sides clashing over corona restrictions.

In a post in Kotler's latest post, she writes: "About two weeks ago I had to go on a family visit to Berlin. I knew where I was going - the Germans took the shocking segregation regulations towards the unvaccinated very far. No entry anywhere. No job. No life. Still, the longings "The goats prevailed. I went, even though I knew I would be banned. (Remember, I was harmed by the vaccine and I am not allowed to get vaccinated) ... She wrote sharply.

"As a woman who grew up to be a Holocaust survivor father, to experience this insane exclusion in Israel is a terrible mental experience, but in Berlin and more in German, it is an unbearable experience. And please spare me the righteousness. I know I was not sent to the camps… and there is no extermination here. How is it possible that in the name of such a faint threat to their health, people are willing to stop seeing other people, to discriminate against them, to deprive them of a livelihood… I will do everything I can, that in my country we will not reach these dark districts. "

She goes on to describe a case she experienced in a cafe: "I was tempted by my young daughter's request and we 'went out' to drink and eat something at one of the cafes in town. Clean the tables outside. Why bother for us 'the disease-spreading anarchists.' Also outside because I am not vaccinated and it is better that I leave the place immediately. I was amazed by the rudeness, but the scorching woman in front of me just enjoyed throwing me out.

"The woman refused and more or less pushed me out as she increased to do and shouted at me I was crazy. It took me five or six hours to pick myself up, stop crying and shake and go back to the cafe. In my life I did this just for Dad's memory. I went in and asked the principal. I spoke Quietly and pleasantly and I asked her if she remembered me.In response she ordered me to leave the place again.

"I informed her that I would already do so, but before that I introduced myself, my citizenship and my profession, and promised her that at the first moment, I would tell about her shameful conduct towards her unvaccinated clients. The crazy woman went out to chase me again. I did not bother to look back. I went. That I will never return to Germany. "

Kotler concludes with the question "And why did I share this story with you? Because we are not allowed to go there. We will be there very soon. Because I am an adult, I have the tools to deal with this kind of public shaming, but what will the children do? Because the green mark is a moral stain" "Black. Because if you have to learn something from the past, those are the limits of obedience."

At the same time as Kotler's words, Haaretz reporter Ronit Vered posted yesterday (Tuesday) with things written to her by a German from the restaurant industry named Lauren Courtville, from another cafe where Kotler apparently visited and told how things looked from the other side: "She came to the store, And we said that according to the regulations, she could not sit in the place without a vaccination certificate.

"She started shouting about 'you' going through brainwashing and discriminating against people again, and when I asked her who 'you' was she said 'the Germans'.

Kotler did not know this, but it turns out that she is an American Jew, a fourth-generation Jewish immigrant from Poland who opened a bakery in the city.

Ronit Vered concluded the post by stating that "I have no intention of getting into a lost debate with Kotler on the issue of vaccines, and I will spare you my private opinions about her personality, but a journalist's certificate is not a private whip to whip him in public."

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