Last month an Israeli man who lives in Berlin walked into K-Fetisch, a café in the city’s Neukölln district, with his German girlfriend. She was wearing a T-shirt with the word “falafel” on it, in Arabic, English and Hebrew (in that order). The woman behind the bar asked her what language the third word was, and she said it was Hebrew. At this point the woman behind the bar started to curse her, accused her (yes, the German woman from Berlin) of genocide in Gaza, claimed that Hebrew is an “oppressive language” and threw them out.