GERMANY: Far-Left & Muslim Keffiyeh-wearing anti-Israel agitators were banned from the Buchenwald Nazi Concentration Camp last year

So why do they think they will be allowed to demonstrate there against the ‘fake’ Israeli genocide at the April 11th ceremony marking the camp’s liberation by Allied forces in 1945, where more than 56,000 mostly Jewish prisoners were slaughtered by the Nazis. Germany’s commissioner for combating antisemitism, Felix Klein, denounced the planned demonstration as “a new low in the reversal of roles between victim and perpetrator.”

Legal Insurrection (h/t Marvin W) Israeli media outlet Ynet reported that the scheduled protest, dubbed “Keffiyehs in Buchenwald” by its organizers, follows an incident last year in which a visitor wearing a keffiyeh was denied entry to the memorial. Last year, an internal document from staff at the memorial was leaked which described the keffiyeh as “closely associated with efforts to destroy the state of Israel”.

Israeli journalist Hen Mazzig claimed on X, “It was later reported that the visitor was affiliated with an organization that had praised Hamas and the October 7 massacre.” Mazzig noted, “A memorial site is not the place to protest Israel’s policies. Jews at Buchenwald were murdered for being Jews, before the Israeli-Palestinian conflict even existed. Second, commemorating 56,000 murdered prisoners should not be turned into a performative protest about keffiyehs.

“Families come to pay their respects, not to hear fake activists shouting about anti-Israel symbols inside Buchenwald,” he wrote, adding that “it is neither the place nor the time.”

Israeli media outlet Israel Hayom reported that the planned protest “has sparked outrage in Berlin.” Officials describe it as “an assault on the dignity of the victims’ memory.”

Among those involved are the student wing of Germany’s Left Party (Die Linke), the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East and the German Communist Party (DKP). The groups accuse the memorial’s management of not being “hostile enough toward Israel.”

In statements published by the organizers, the Buchenwald memorial site is accused of promoting “historical revisionism and genocide denial” and of serving as a vehicle for advancing what they call “Israeli propaganda.”

The controversy follows an incident last year in which a woman seeking to stage a protest at the site while wearing a keffiyeh, a scarf widely associated with Palestinian terrorism, was denied entry. A German court later upheld the decision. The protest organizers claim the memorial’s management is effectively criminalizing pro-Palestinian activists.

This planned protest would not be unprecedented. In May 2024, pro-Palestinian activists staged a demonstration at the Auschwitz Memorial as thousands gathered for the March for the Living ceremony. Held each year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the event brings participants in a silent procession from Auschwitz to the crematoria of Birkenau to honor those murdered by the Nazi regime. In 2024, marchers also commemorated the Israeli victims of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre.