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Berlin: OVG confirms ban on Palestinian demonstration
Participants in a Palestinian demonstration walk through Neukölln. photo
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The police had banned the Nakba Memorial Day demonstration, citing possible “anti-Semitic and hate speech”. The Higher Administrative Court shares the view.
The police ban on a Palestinian demonstration planned for this Saturday in Berlin remains in place. The Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg confirmed the ban. As the court further announced on Saturday, the decision is no longer contestable. The administrative court in Berlin had previously confirmed the ban.
The police had banned the event, citing the risk of “anti-Semitic and hate speech, the glorification of violence, the conveying of a readiness to use violence and the resulting intimidation and acts of violence”. As justification, reference was made to the experiences of the past few years and the more recent past as well as further findings and forecasts. The court shared this view.
Up to 1,000 participants were registered for the “demonstration for the basic right to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba” on Hermannplatz in Neukölln. The Palestinian day of remembrance Nakba on May 15 commemorates the flight and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the first Middle East war in 1948 after the founding of Israel.