In December, 2017, Israel’s Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff called for a change of the law in the Federal Republic to prohibit the burning of the Israeli flag.

Seated at a safe social distance, lawmakers voted for an amendment to protect foreign state flags, as well as the EU’s (burning the German flag is punishable by up to five years).

The German, Israeli and E.U. flags in Berlin in January. Photos of an Israeli flag burning in the city in 2017 prompted outrage in Germany. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters ...

i24NEWS 2 min read 2 min read FILE: Palestinian protestors burn a flag with a David star in Berlin, October 6, 2000.AP / Axel Seidemann 2000 © ...

As Christine Lambrecht, Germany’s justice minister, told The New York Times, “The burning of flags in public has nothing to do with peaceful protest.

German parliament late Thursday passed a law making the burning of flags from the EU or foreign countries a punishable offense. Under the new law, violators can receive up to three years in prison.

Burn a flag in Germany, go to jail. On Thursday, the nation’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, voted in favor of making the deliberate act of burning the European Union flag — or any … ...

Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has condemned the burning of Israeli flags at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Berlin following the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the ...