Hundreds took to Berlin’s streets to protest in support of Palestine two days after Berlin police shut down the Palestine Congress on Sunday.
Footage shows protesters marching with Palestinian flags and banners such as ‘There is no such thing as justifiable genocide’. Protesters chanting ‘Germany genocide, Israel massacre’ were also seen.
“This all actually amounts to a genocide war, and we wanted to organize with Congress in order to coordinate our actions, in order to discuss what we can do to help here to stop that war,” one of the protesters explained.
Another protester noted that Berlin police did not give ‘official justification’ for Palestine Congress closing and claimed that the German government uses antisemitism as a ‘weapon to push their own political agenda’.
“We have been branded as antisemites, we have been branded as vile terrorists and so on just because we actually wanted to solidarise with people who are massacred at the moment,” the protester added. German police wrote on the social media platform X, that the Palestine Congress was halted because an unnamed speaker was subject to a ban on political activity in Germany.
Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian doctor, was also expected to speak at the event but claimed in a post on X that he had been ‘forcibly prevented’ from entering Germany.
(Source: Ruptly)
