on August 20, 2025, 7:45 pm
Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules
Court in Thuringia rejected woman’s request to enter concentration camp memorial while wearing the scarf
Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules
Court in Thuringia rejected woman’s request to enter concentration camp memorial while wearing the scarf
Agence France-Presse in Berlin
Wed 20 Aug 2025 19.28 BST
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.
According to local media reports, the woman was turned away when she attempted to attend a commemorative event marking the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in April while wearing the scarf.
She then petitioned the courts to allow her to return to the memorial for another commemorative event this week while wearing a keffiyeh.
The court found that the memorial was within its rights to deny her entry, pointing to the woman’s declared aim of “sending a political message against what she saw as the [memorial’s] one-sided support for the policies of the Israeli government”.
“It is unquestionable that this would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at this site,” the court said.
The court said the woman’s right to freedom of expression was outweighed in this case by the memorial’s “interest in upholding the purpose of the institution”.
Germany, still trying to atone for the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, has been one of Israel’s staunchest allies.
The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
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