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.

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 hours 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.

    • dataprolet@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      3 hours ago

      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.

      • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        I was poking you specifically on the “Communist” part because I saw you bring it up elsewhere in the conversation. I don’t adopt this organization’s political analysis of the October 7th attacks.

        Now, let’s talk about the “right” to the place. The Nazis murdered homosexuals in Buchenwald. Does a member of a homophobic Jewish organization get the right to visit with symbols of their organization?