Germany Shuts Down Pro-Palestinian Event On Grounds of Hate Speech

[Webster]

(The Guardian) The German government has defended its decision to shut down a conference of pro-Palestinian activists on Friday which aimed to throw light on what its organisers referred to as Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.

Interior minister Nancy Faeser said that it had been correct for the police to have intervened and brought the event to a premature close, just two hours after it had started. Police cut the power and called the three-day event closed on Friday after a speaker who had been banned from entering Germany on grounds of hate speech, appeared via video link.

Salman Abu Sitta, who had penned an essay in January expressing sympathy for the Hamas terrorists who carried out the 7 October attacks, had begun to address the conference when police reportedly took to the stage and pulled the plug on the electricity supply.

Another main speaker, Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British Palestinian doctor, who was recently appointed rector of Glasgow University, was earlier denied entry into Germany after landing by plane at Berlin’s airport.

He said that preventing him from participating in the event was the equivalent of “silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ which adds to Germany’s complicity in the ongoing massacre”, referring to Germany’s supplying of weapons to Israel and the legal cases filed against Germany to the International Court of Justice over its support for Israel.

The former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was among the speakers due to address the congress.

Faeser said on social media: “It is right and proper that the Berlin police intervened firmly at the so-called Palestinian Congress.” Ahead of the event she had told the hundreds of police drafted in to oversee the event to clamp down if any hate speech was heard at the congress.

Berlin police said their decision to close the event was triggered by “a speaker …who was subject to a ban on political activity.” It added there had been “a risk of a speaker being put on screen who in the past made antisemitic and violence-glorifying remarks. The gathering was ended and banned on Saturday and Sunday”.

The event’s location was kept secret until Friday morning amid fears of a backlash from opponents. About 800 tickets to it were sold, organisers said.

 

[safeinsanity]

Good, now why aren't we doing that here in the States?

 

[Webster]

Good, now why aren't we doing that here in the States?

The 1st Amendment; unless they're doing something that is of imminent danger to human life.....

 

[MrDawn]

now why aren't we doing that here in the States?

The US isn't a proactive state where crime is concerned. Unless it's deemed as a terrorist threat to the higher ups. It's mostly just cause and reaction. So those people can protest and make their threats all they want. But the moment they go out and break the law, well....that's when the authorities (and the national guard, considering if it's bad enough) get involved.

 

[Dead2009]

Salman Abu Sitta, who had penned an essay in January expressing sympathy for the Hamas terrorists who carried out the 7 October attacks, had begun to address the conference when police reportedly took to the stage and pulled the plug on the electricity supply.

This is why it was pulled. These Pro-Palestinian protests are masks for Hamas supporters and NOBODY seems to understand this.