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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    6 hours ago

    There is zero proof that the woman who was blocked from entering the memorial had any connection to the organization . Seem like the organization you mentioned used that event to spread their antisemitism. The memorial employers also help their case by associating kufiyah as antisemitism and trying to conflate antizionism with antisemitism. The kufiyah was never an anti jew slogan it’s a symbol of the inherit right of any group of people to living freely. It is even recognized by UNESCO

    I should also remember you that in Buchenwald concentration that 11000 jews was massacred but also 45000 non jew . So who those memorial staffs are to say the Palestinians getting genocide and people who oppose this genocide to use this memorial as an occasion to say massacres and genocides should never happen again no matter who is the victim This is an humanitarian and moral statement not a political one

    I also wonder why no organization associated with settlers terrorists in the west bank oppressing Palestinians are in Germany terrorist list