https://ft.com/content/ed5a-296a-43a0-ad53-ff771f833aeb
Police and intelligence agencies raided 54 properties across Germany on Thursday as part of a crackdown on what they described as “anti-Israel” Islamism in the wake of the deepening crisis in the Middle East.
More than 800 security officials carried out raids in seven federal states, seizing material that they said would be investigated for sedition and terror-related offences.
The IZH did not respond to a request for comment.
The interior ministry has now banned the commonly used pro-Palestinian slogan, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free,” for example, declaring it to be a statement that implicitly supports the destruction of the Israeli state.
But government lawyers have been unable to decide whether the phrase “From the River to the Sea” alone is also illegal, saying it would depend on the context in which it was used.
Some state prosecutors have said they do not understand the substance of the new legal orders from Berlin, and are uncertain what might stand up in court.
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