Karlheinz Kögel, the founder of the prize, wrote in an email to The Jerusalem Post on Friday that a “deep conflict has unfolded and we do not want to boost it.”
His group has “received hundreds of protest emails,”he added.
Bethlehem-based pastor Mitri Raheb is slated to receive the humanitarian prize on Thursday in the southwestern German city of Baden-Baden.
Raheb supports the controversial Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement targeting the Jewish state, and has rejected the right of the Jewish people to live in Israel.
According to the Jewish NGO B’nai B’rith, Raheb said at the 2010 Christ at the Checkpoint Conference – an overtly anti-Israel gathering – that “Israel represents Rome of the Bible, not the people of the land,” asserting that he has a DNA link to King David and Jesus. But, he said, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not have this link and “will get nothing, because Netanyahu comes from an eastern European tribe who converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages.” Read the rest on: The Jerusalem Post
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