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[–] newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 56 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Just fyi, in G*rmany it's neither illegal to show a Palestinian flag nor is criminalized to wear Palestinian clothing (whatever that is).

However, recently public protest has been made the police's business to regulate - making left wing protest quite dangerous and edging the country closer towards a police state. The pigs made it a constraint not to show Hamas/Al Qaeda/Islamic Jihad flags on protests and due to their political/justical illiteracy they might have extended this to Palestinian flags. This is probably where Don Salmon's error might originate.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The way a lot of this stuff is regulated isn't through a law that literally says "you will go to jail for this." Instead it functions through a web of social control. People can lose their jobs, their ability to rent or take loans, be harassed in the streets, all for going to a protest and waving a Palestinian flag. It might not technically be "illegal" but the law isn't the only way the capitalist class controls society. There is a lot of "shaming" that goes on as well.

[–] newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yea but the tweet says 'criminal offense' and 'criminalize' which explicitly does refer to stuff regulated by law. So they're claiming display of flag and 'Palestinian clothing' are 'technically' 'illegal', which they totally pulled out of their arse

[–] Prologue7642@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 11 months ago

Not sure if it is illegal in Germany, but laws usually aren't so specific. Where I live we basically made “From river to the sea” illegal, because “it promotes genocide”.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] aworldtowin@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Most organizations have flags/symbols, if you're familiar with the Saudi flag its pretty similar. Imo fatah and PFLP have cooler flags

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

wear Palestinian clothing (whatever that is).

I would guess they are specifically referencing palestinian-designed keffiyeh with that one. Which has been banned in some places, I think Berlin specifically banned them in schools? Not a general ban in public though, at least not yet.