I’VE NEVER EXPERIENCED SUCH DIRECT ANTI-SEMITISM BEFORE IN ALL (MY) YEARS ... IN GERMANY.

“In some German mosques, anti-Semitism is being actively encouraged,” said Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

The boy was born in London to a German father and British mother, but the family moved to Berlin when he was a baby and he has lived there all his life. Ironically, his family chose the Friedenauer Gemeinschaftsschule in part because they were attracted to the school’s ethnic mix. The majority of pupils at the school are Muslim.

The trouble started when he attended a class on religion and told his fellow pupils he was Jewish.

“The next day was his birthday. He was looking forward to going to school — he had this friend and they were planning to rap together,” said his mother.

But the other child asked her son if he was really Jewish. “He said, ‘Listen, you’re a cool guy, but I can’t be friends with you. Muslims aren’t friends with Jews,” she said.

The boy was later pushed and threatened. On one occasion, another student hit him twice in the back.

The family arranged for the boy’s grandparents — both Holocaust survivors — to give a talk to pupils. But his mother remained dismayed at the lack of support from the school.

One older pupil pulled a replica gun on the boy, leading his parents to decide to move him to another school.

The school has issued a statement expressing its “regret and horror” at the case.