Germany bans anti-genocide protester’s 1yo child as ‘security threat’

German authorities, notorious for their brutality and abuse toward anti-genocide protesters and their refusal to apply international law to Israel, have separated the one-year-old son of a Palestinian-Jordanian woman, legally resident in Germany, from his mother – because they say they consider the child a ‘security threat’, according to the woman’s lawyers at the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC), who have recorded at least twenty-two examples of Germany misusing residency status or restricting freedom of movement have been used to attack the pro-Palestine movement.

An ELSC spokesperson said:

The German state systematically exploits residence, asylum and citizenship law to punish already marginalised communities. There is no justification for separating a newborn from his parents, yet to label the child a ‘security threat’ marks a grotesque new low, even by their own oppressive standards.

The distraught mother arrived in Germany in 2017 and works as a nurse. She and her husband travelled with their young son to Jordan let him meet his grandparents for the first time. On their return to Germany they were told that the boy was not allowed to re-enter Germany. Four months later, the German embassy in Jordan told the couple that their son is barred from Germany because he is considered a security threat – and that his mother is being investigated because of her involvement with Palestinian solidarity groups.

Germany’s tactics against the Palestine solidarity movement are increasingly mirrored and even exceeded by the Starmer UK government, which is misusing anti-terror laws to harass, raid, arrest and even prosecute those who speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even journalists – including many Jews – and is now in the process of banning Palestine Action, an anti-genocide protest group that throws paint on buildings and military equipment involved in Israel’s crimes, as a terrorist group on the ‘proscription’ list alongside ISIS and al-Qaeda.

The Starmer police state is colluding with Israel to use anti-terror laws, with potential prison sentences of up to fourteen years, against those who speak out for Palestinian lives and human rights and against Israel’s mass slaughter of almost 400,000 innocent civilians. Some activists are being held in prison for more than a year before they even come to trial, as the government tries to ‘make the process the punishment’.

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