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    3 months ago

    Check again what the parent poster said:

    As long as they are not violent they can protest all day long.

    Which is what I replied to, and which is clearly not true, they ban nonviolent protests all the time.

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        3 months ago

        Tons. This on is from Oct 30 in The Nation:

        The German state’s show of support has led to an outright banning of most pro-Palestine protests. […]

        The reasons for the bans seemed unambiguous: German police said that there was an “imminent danger” that the assemblies will result in “inciting, anti-Semitic slogans,” as well as “glorification of violence.”

        Preemptively. Because antisemitism and “glorification of violence” might occur. And by antisemitism they mean things like this:

        On October 13, Berlin police declared uttering the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” forbidden and indictable. That same day, Berlin’s education senator, Katharina Günther-Wünsch, sent a letter to all Berlin school principals offering them the option to ban students from wearing “pro-Palestinian symbols such as the keffiyeh.” “Any act or expression of opinion that can be understood as advocacy or approval of the attacks against Israel,” she wrote, “constitutes a threat to school peace and is prohibited.”