Berlin officials reacted sharply to the initiative, with officials describing the planned rally as “an assault on the dignity of the victims’ memory.”
German authorities and Jewish organizations are condemning a planned demonstration by radical groups at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial on April 11, the anniversary of the camp’s liberation, after organizers accused the memorial of disseminating what they called Israeli propaganda.
The protest, announced under the slogan “Keffiyehs in Buchenwald,” is being organized by a coalition of pro-Palestinian and far-left groups that describe themselves as part of an international anti-fascist movement.
The campaign alleges that the memorial’s management engages in “historical revisionism and genocide denial” and objects to its stance toward Israel.