Pro-Palestinian activists occupied a courtyard at the Free University in Berlin on Tuesday. This is based on a report by Daily Mirror around the “Theaterhof” at Rostlaube behind the FU cafeteria in Dahlem. A university spokeswoman estimates that around 80 to 100 people were involved. Some of them are said to be the reporter of the Daily Mirror “German-Nazi-Media” and “Shame on you” shouted. The German press is lying, said a demonstrator with a camera Daily Mirror. Bystanders did not want to comment on the protest. “When injustice becomes right, resistance becomes duty,” “Strike is resistance,” “Fight colonial power” and “Decolonise feminism – free Palestine student coalition,” it says Daily Mirror according to posters. Shouts of “Fuck you FU”, “Fuck you Germany” and “Free, free Palastine” could also be heard.
Several tents could be seen in photos from a group appearing on Instagram as “Student Coalition Berlin”. The group called for the occupation of German universities and student resistance in solidarity with Gaza. The university announced rapid action. “The FU ordered the evacuation and called the police,” said the university spokeswoman. There was initially no concrete information from the police. It was said that you first have to get an overview.
On Friday, anti-Israel activists protested at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Here had loud Bild Around 300 demonstrators, some of whom were masked, occupied the campus. They shouted “Yallah, Yallah, Intifada!” and insulted the university president as a Zionist. Some had covered themselves with Palestinian scarves. The protesters demanded a lecture hall as a rally location, which the university management did not grant. As a result, the police initiated 37 investigations into possible cases of sedition and resistance to law enforcement officers.
In the USA, there have been protests at numerous universities for more than two weeks against the Israeli military operation against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip and in solidarity with the Palestinians living there. The protest movement is characterized by anti-Semitism and the trivialization of the terrorist organization Hamas. According to media reports, 2,000 people were arrested in connection with this.
The background is the unprecedented massacre with more than 1,200 deaths that terrorists from Hamas and other groups carried out in Israel on October 7th.
with dpa
