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Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivors vowed to fight for peace

JL;DR SUMMARY The article examines the controversy at the Buchenwald concentration camp site, where pro-Palestinian activists from Kufiyas in Buchenwald were banned from holding a vigil, coinciding with historical debates on how to remember the camp's victims. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustHolocaust SurvivorsIsrael Palestine ConflictMemorialActivismPro PalestinianHolocaust RemembranceBuchenwaldHistorical MemoryPolitical Symbolism

Places mentioned

Paris, France
"A former prisoner from the Buchenwald concentration camp holds a flag with a hammer and a sickle in Paris, May 1, 1945."
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
"Kufiyas in Buchenwald was blocked from holding a pro-Palestinian vigil at the Buchenwald memorial on Sunday after a court in the nearby city of Weimar upheld a police ban."
Bosnia and Herzegovina
"In 1993, about 3,000 people demonstrated on the site against the ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Nottingham, United Kingdom
"William Niven, an emeritus professor of Nottingham Trent University who teaches German history."
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
"James E. Young, a Holocaust scholar and professor emeritus of Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst."

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