Citing alleged anti-Semitic incidents, German court supports ban on pro-Palestine protests in Berlin
Occupied Palestine (QNN) – German authorities have supported a ban on a scheduled pro-Palestine protest in the capital Berlin.
Citing anti-Semitic incidents, the Berlin administrative court endorsed the ban imposed by police earlier this week, a court official told the German Press Agency on Saturday.
Pro-Palestinian protests were scheduled to take place in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district against recent Israeli aggression in the occupied West Bank and the al-Aqsa Mosque Compound.
On Thursday, police announced banning the protest, citing concerns over alleged anti-Semitic incidents at similar demonstrations last Friday and Saturday.
“Based on experiences from the recent past” there is “the immediate danger” of anti-Semitic slogans, glorification of violence and acts of violence, police officials were quoted as saying.
“We saw crimes, anti-Semitic exclamations and slogans of the worst kind during the demonstrations last weekend.
That is completely unacceptable,” Berlin’s Interior Senator Iris Spranger said earlier this week.
In turn, Palestinian civic leaders in Berlin have repeatedly stated that they do not condone anti-Semitic slurs at demonstrations, asserting that their only goal is to draw attention to “Israel’s” ongoing repression in occupied Palestine.
