Critics question whether the restrictions — in France, Germany, Austria and elsewhere — reflect real safety concerns or government bias and overreach.
BERLIN — In front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate, 10,000 people rallied in solidarity with Israel. Major political parties backed the event. In a rousing speech, Germany’s president heralded a national responsibility to “protect Jewish life.”A few blocks away, officers in riot gear moved in on a much smaller gathering, where demonstrators defying a protest ban waved Palestinian flags. Some attendees were led away, their hands bound. Others scattered, venting in rage.
That diplomatic backing has been accompanied by nods to an unpayable debt still owed to Judaism. The government of hard right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, for instance, backed funding for a new Holocaust museum, potentially in the Rome villa once used by the country’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.
“It is outrageous, it is shocking, it is unacceptable not being able to express yourself when there is a live-streamed massacre,” said Walid Atallah, 61, president of a regional association of Palestinians that was barred from holding an Oct. 14 protest in Paris. Police cited the risk of violence and the group’s failure to condemn Hamas.
That slogan has been interpreted in multiple ways. Mikel Oleaga, an organizer of the Austria’s BDS movement — which promotes boycotts of, divestment from and sanctions against Israel — contested the idea that it was a cry to push Jews into the sea and instead described it as a call to end what critics see as an apartheidlike system in Israel.Austrian authorities, he said, had gone too far. “They are looking for any dog-whistle,” he said.
Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said the protest bans were “definitely justified.” “What frightens us is the prevailing atmosphere of racism and xenophobia in Germany. … We reject in particular the conflation of antisemitism and any criticism of the state of Israel,” the letter read.
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