A higher administrative court in Thuringia rejected a woman's request to enter the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh. The woman had been turned away when she tried to attend an 80th-anniversary liberation commemorative event while wearing the scarf. The court found the memorial could deny entry because the woman aimed to send a political message against what she viewed as the memorial's one-sided support for Israeli government policies. The court said such a message would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at that site. The court ruled that the memorial's institutional purpose outweighed the woman's freedom of expression.
The higher administrative court in the eastern state of Thuringia on Wednesday rejected a request from a woman to be allowed entry to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial while wearing a keffiyeh. According to local media reports, the woman was turned away when she attempted to attend a commemorative event marking the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation in April while wearing the scarf.
The court found that the memorial was within its rights to deny her entry, pointing to the woman's declared aim of sending a political message against what she saw as the [memorial's] one-sided support for the policies of the Israeli government. It is unquestionable that this would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at this site, the court said.
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