Anti-Israel activists who planned a protest at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in Germany will instead rally in the nearby city of Weimar Sunday after a court upheld a police ban on the demonstration.
The planned vigil, called by a campaign dubbed “Kufiyas in Buchenwald,” had provoked a sharp debate in Germany, with a number of politicians denouncing the protest as inappropriate.
The court in Weimar has now upheld an early decision by officials to ban the vigil and instead move protesters to a square in the city, according to a decision seen by AFP.
The Nazi concentration camp memorial is located on a hill just outside of the central German city.
The activists had called their demonstration to remember “the victims of genocide and fascism” and the struggle “against all genocides, particularly the genocide currently taking place in Palestine.”
But judges ruled that the protest would likely “violate the dignity of victims” of the Nazi regime who suffered in the camp, according to a court statement.
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