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.

  • dataprolet@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 hours ago

    Kinda weird to go to court over that. How about you respect the decision of the memorial in the first place.

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        3 hours ago

        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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          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.

          Where did you get this info? The article mention none of that

          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.

          Nice excuse from him after the internal document was leaked Israel lover using the same tactic when they got exposed

          intentionally making it look like the bad Germans are banning Palestinians

          Nobody is claiming Germans are all bad and support Israeli terrorism just the government