Court in Thuringia rejected woman’s request to enter concentration camp memorial while wearing the scarf

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.deEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    The activist that went to court over this is part of a communist organization that calls October 7th “morally legitimate” and “politically reasonable”.

    • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
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      41 minutes ago

      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.