German authorities refused to grant licenses for pro-Palestinian demonstrations and gatherings in Berlin on the occasion of the Nakba Day, and German police said that these events include advocacy of hatred, deny Israel's right to exist, and pointed to alleged links between the demonstrations and Palestinian organizations.
The German news agency dpa reported on Saturday that the Berlin-Brandenburg Regional Administrative Court upheld a ban imposed by the police in Berlin on a Palestinian demonstration that was scheduled to take place in the German capital on Saturday, and the court also announced that the ban decision was no longer subject to appeal.
The Berlin Administrative Court, a lower court, had earlier upheld the police ban on the demonstration on the grounds that there was a risk of chanting "anti-Semitic and inflammatory slogans, glorifying violence, expressing willingness to use violence, and the resulting intimidation and violence," police said.
Some 1000,75 people registered their participation in a "demonstration for the fundamental right to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression on the <>th anniversary of the Nakba" in Hermannplatz square in Berlin's Neukölln district.
The attached report to Al Jazeera sheds more light on the German decision and its circumstances.