Thousands of demonstrators commemorate Nakba Day and denounce the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948

from Juedische Stimme: “Yesterday we marched together with tens of thousands of people commemorating and fighting the ongoing Nakba. This was the first Nakba Demo that could take place in Berlin after several years of criminalization. The arbitrary arrests of people wearing Kuffiyeh around Hermannplatz is a practice that the Berlin police department had established around the criminalization of the Nakba commemoration already years ago. This years Nakba demo in Berlin was powerful and essential for the struggle. Free Palestine and may the exiled return soon!”

Repression update: Police carry out brutal attacks on protestors, beat many people up, several arrests, pepper spray the crowds, taking away the lauti (sound system and microphone). The police violence at such a big weekend demonstration is extreme and unprecedented.