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German Police Shut Down Palestine Conference

Peoples Dispatch
http://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/15/german-police-shut-down-palestine-conference/

Publisher:  Consortium News
Date Written:  15/04/2024
Year Published:  2024  
Resource Type:  Article

Police arrested attendees as German authorities prevented Gazan doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta, an invited speaker, from even entering the country.

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In perhaps the most serious round of repression against Palestine solidarity organizers, German police on Friday shut down the Palestine Congress in Berlin, arresting several attendees and ordering delegates to leave immediately.

German officials also prohibited scheduled speaker Ghassan Abu Sitta, Palestinian-British surgeon and the rector of Glasgow University from even entering the country.

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Anti-Zionist Jewish activists are heavily targeted in Germany, despite Germany's attempt to justify its support to Israel as "collective guilt" over the holocaust and repenting for its infamous antisemitism.

Yet, according to researcher Emily Dische-Becker, almost a third of those deplatformed, arrested, or otherwise sanctioned for alleged antisemitism are themselves Jewish. Videos from the repression show a Jewish activist being arrested outside of the conference, with police seizing a banner that read "Jew Against Genocide."
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