In the past few months, the repression of the Palestinian solidarity movement in Germany continued in multiple forms. During a protest in Berlin in May, several people were detained, including a woman, who had her hijab removed by policemen, and two children. Similarly, in June, multiple demonstrations were broken up by police through the excessive use of force. Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity CSOs have been targeted both through financial cuts and legal harassment. In a migration law decision in June, the Higher Administrative Court Berlin-Brandenburg did not allow a Palestinian-Jordanian woman to reunite with her toddler son, citing her participation in Palestinian solidarity movements. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has accused Palestine solidarity groups of extremism, and symbols of Palestine have on occasion been banned from institutional settings. The police were called in July when students from the Solidarity Collective and Student Coalition Berlin demonstrated outside the Hertie School, accusing it of complicity in genocide, for collaborating with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. On the other hand, in May, students from the AK Antisemitismus group at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg managed to cancel a lecture on the genocide in Gaza.
