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Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial is shut down by German authorities

JL;DR SUMMARY German authorities canceled a pro-Palestinian rally at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial due to outcry over its timing and location coinciding with the anniversary of the camp's liberation. 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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Israeli Palestinian ConflictHolocaust SurvivorsGermanyGenocideHolocaust MemoryPro Palestinian RallyFelix KleinBuchenwaldKufiyas In Buchenwald

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Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
"But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would ban the event on the memorial grounds and offered a square downtown as an alternate location."
Israel
"Klein said he viewed the rally as disrespectful self-promotion and a perfidious attempt to relativize the murder of over 11,000 Jews in the Buchenwald concentration camp by comparing it to Israels actions in the recent Gaza war."

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