Overview
- Left-wing and pro-Palestinian groups plan protests, lectures and a panel during the April liberation weekend under the banner "Kufiyas in Buchenwald."
- The memorial’s spokesman, Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau, called the campaign an inappropriate instrumentalization of remembrance and said displays used to advance such agendas will be blocked at official ceremonies.
- Felix Klein, the federal antisemitism commissioner, condemned the planned action as a new low and a reversal of perpetrator and victim roles.
- The mobilization follows an April 2025 incident in which a woman was denied entry for wearing a kufiya to protest Israel, a decision later upheld by a court.
- Named participants include the Linkspartei student group, Jüdische Stimme and the DKP, whose joint statement accuses the site of revisionism, while Weimar’s public order office has not yet received a registration for a protest announced for April 12.