Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules
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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.ca
    28·
    2 个月前

    Regardless of anything else you might think, you just have to admit that this rationale is bullshit:

    “It is unquestionable that this would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at this site,” the court said.

    It is not unquestionable that wearing a keffiyeh would endanger anyone’s sense of security.

    Argue about anything else, but you cannot actually defend that “it is unquestionable”.

  • madjo@feddit.nl
    346·
    2 个月前

    freedom of expression no longer exists in Germany or is it just bigotry against the keffiyeh?

  • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    2 个月前

    All the people trying to define Genocide as being part of the Jewish identity, thus making anti-zionism “anti-semitic”, are doing a monumentally historic disservice to all Jewish communities and individuals around the world…

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 个月前

    I have one of those, not exact, but close enough to ban me? It’s not even a political statement, I just wanted both a B&W and tan shemagh to match whatever I was wearing.

    BTW, serious pro tip, a square meter of thin cloth is seriously useful outdoors. You can wrap it several ways, stay cool, stay warm, much more.