{"id":8331,"date":"2026-03-09T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:10:14","slug":"antifascist-activist-banned-from-holocaust-memorial-for-wearing-a-kufiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/antifascist-activist-banned-from-holocaust-memorial-for-wearing-a-kufiya\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifascist activist banned from Holocaust memorial for wearing a Kufiya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has--font-size\"><strong>Antifascist activist banned from Holocaust memorial for wearing a Kufiya. The ELSC is fighting back.<\/strong><br><br><br><strong>Why we need your support<\/strong><br><br>On 6 April 2025, Anna M. was expelled from Buchenwald concentration camp memorial &#8211; a site built to remember the victims of fascism &#8211; for wearing a Kufiya.<br><br>The Buchenwald memorial foundation banned her, threatened her with criminal charges, and then doubled down by banning her from returning in August 2025.<br><br>When forced to justify the ban in court, the foundation argued the Kufiya &#8220;has been associated with anti-Jewish and anti-Western positions since the time of the National Socialist dictatorship.&#8221; The Weimar Administrative Court and the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court both upheld the ban.<br><br>The ELSC is now pursuing a formal declaration of unlawfulness on Anna&#8217;s behalf &#8211; and we will not be deterred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-theme-palette-9-color has-theme-palette-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/kufiya_case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donate now!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading8331_8dfc70-3a\"><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading8331_b0771c-49\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An antifascist activist was expelled from the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial for wearing a Kufiya. After banning her and threatening criminal charges, the memorial foundation defended the decision in court by claiming the Kufiya is linked to anti-Jewish positions. The ELSC is challenging this decision and fighting to have the ban declared unlawful.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"test-2":[],"country":[25],"blog_categories":[],"class_list":["post-8331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns","country-de"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":129,"label":"Campaigns"}],"country":[{"value":25,"label":"Germany"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/elsc.support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/To-speak-about-genocide-is-not-appropriate-at-a-place-like-this-Palestinian-Symbols-Banned-at-Holocaust-Memorial-Site-Buchenwald-.png",800,450,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Bashar","author_link":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/author\/bashar\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":129,"name":"Campaigns","slug":"campaigns","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":129,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Fundraising campaigns.","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":129,"category_count":9,"category_description":"Fundraising campaigns.","cat_name":"Campaigns","category_nicename":"campaigns","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8332,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions\/8332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"test-2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/test-2?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"blog_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_categories?post=8331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}