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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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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 68 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes - in a memorial remembering genocide, let's prohibit symbols of protest against a current genocide

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 58 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 30 points 3 months ago

Puts on the genocidology hat

"You see they are not killing using organized industrial means, so it can't be a genocide. If the killing is done by randomly shooting and bombing civilians it's just a sparkling massacre"

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Guilt is one hell of a drug

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

One hell of excuse to support a new genocide

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Guilt has no factor in this. Only shamelessness and German white supremacy.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm really confused by this comment.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

So the guilt part comes in the idea that because Germans perpetuated the worst historical genocide against the Jewish people, they therefore will now bend over backwards to support the Jewish people.

This has similarities with "white guilt" elsewhere, such as in the US with black and native populations. It's usually used as a smear against white activists in favor of BLM, or against the Dakota Access pipeline, or other such cases.

There are alternative explanations that aren't so adjacent to the arguments people are using to derail valid protest movements.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Germany supports genocide because they feel guilty about doing genocide"

...

Nobody supporting Israel has any guilt towards the Holocaust. This is the most contradictory statement one can make.

Germany supports white people ethnically cleansing the Middle East of brown people. For more context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH03uLuOtSY

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Another action that will increase antisemitism

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

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".

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 14 points 3 months ago

Because god forbid Jews get offended by what someone Israel is genociding wears

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No one plays the victim better than the Israelis

Well, a close second are Scousers and Hillsborough

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Way to be completely right and then completely wrong in the next sentence 🤦

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

why, does it bring back bad memories of genocide?