Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, has denounced plans by pro-Palestinian activist groups to hold a Palestine Conference in the city at the weekend, promising a firm police crackdown on any statements deemed anti-Semitic by authorities. “It is intolerable that a so-called Palestine Conference is taking place in Berlin,” Wegner, a politician from the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), told dpa in a written statement. Police in Berlin have taken a generally tough stance toward pro-Palestinian protesters since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, which followed the bloody October 7 attacks on Is…