4d ago

Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules

www.theguardian.com

A German court has ruled that a Nazi concentration camp memorial has the right to refuse entry to those wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf.

The higher administrative court in the eastern state of Thuringia on Wednesday rejected a request from a woman to be allowed entry to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial while wearing a keffiyeh.

“It is unquestionable that this would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at this site,” the court said.

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4d ago

Concentration camp Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules

www.theguardian.com /world/2025/aug/20/buchenwald-can-refuse-admission-to-people-wearing-palestinian-keffiyeh-german-court-rules

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4d ago

Concentration camp Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules

www.theguardian.com /world/2025/aug/20/buchenwald-can-refuse-admission-to-people-wearing-palestinian-keffiyeh-german-court-rules

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Ah yes - in a memorial remembering genocide, let's prohibit symbols of protest against a current genocide
- Puts on the genocidology hat
  "You see they are not killing using organized industrial means, so it can't be a genocide. If the killing is done by randomly shooting and bombing civilians it's just a sparkling massacre"
- Guilt is one hell of a drug
  
  One hell of excuse to support a new genocide
  
  Guilt has no factor in this. Only shamelessness and German white supremacy.
Another action that will increase antisemitism
- Victim blaming?
  
  The victim here is the palestinians who sympatise with jews who was murdered by nazis thst will be banned for wearing a palestinian scarf and the normsl jews who will experience more antisemite because of rediculous ruling like those
Regardless of anything else you might think, you just have to admit that this rationale is bullshit:
“It is unquestionable that this would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at this site,” the court said.
It is not unquestionable that wearing a keffiyeh would endanger anyone's sense of security.
Argue about anything else, but you cannot actually defend that "it is unquestionable".
why, does it bring back bad memories of genocide?
Because god forbid Jews get offended by what someone Israel is genociding wears
No one plays the victim better than the Israelis
Well, a close second are Scousers and Hillsborough
- Way to be completely right and then completely wrong in the next sentence 🤦
The activist that went to court over this is part of a communist organization that calls October 7th "morally legitimate" and "politically reasonable".
- Funny that you use "communist" as an accusation in the context of Buchenwald:
  From 1937 to 1945, the Nazis imprisoned hundreds of thousands of people here in the Buchenwald concentration camp, including political opponents, communists, homosexuals, foreign prisoners, Jews, Roma and Sinti, Jehovah's Witnesses and undesired clergy. (source)
  Based on this list, communists get exactly as much right to the space as all the other groups.
  
  It wasn't an accusation but simply a fact.
  It's "funny" how that's the thing you care about and not the actual point of my comment, that those people - communists or not - praise the massacre of October 7th. I feel like their "right" to the place expires by that.
- Oh nice, saying I should kill myself.
- Germans and smearing communists while Germany supports genocide. Name a better combo.
Kinda weird to go to court over that. How about you respect the decision of the memorial in the first place.
- The decision of the genocide memorial to support genocide?
  
  Who said the memorial is supporting genocide? Are you nuts?
- How about you let people wear whatever pattern of scarf they want instead.
  
  It's not about a scarf pattern. The person suing the memorial had repeatedly tried to use the memorial site for their orthodox communist propaganda and already got banned from it for that. To sue the memorial now is just another escalation and intentionally making it look like the bad Germans are banning Palestinians.
  The director of the memorial personally said, that people wearing a Kufiyeh are not generally banned, but can be banned because of it. The headline/article is just misleading and sensationalism.

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