On a crowded shuttle in Frankfurt Airport.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

I just got a "Free Palestine!" from the coffee bar clerk who saw my flag pin. That felt pretty good. Is the Palestine flag illegal in Germany?

UPDATE: lots of discussion on this. Apparently it's not technically illegal but cops hassle people at protests who have visible signals like flags. IANAGL, TINGLA.

[benedikt@ruhr.social]

@evan I'm not aware of any point in time when it was illegal in Germany.

[leonardo@mastodon.bida.im]

@evan it was a pretty good moustache

[burnie@mastodon.online]

@benedikt @evan only the Hamas flag was banned afaik

[perspektivbrocken@social.tchncs.de]

@burnie @benedikt @evan The Hamas flag is banned, because Hamas is as an organisation. Symbols of banned organisations cannot be shown in public (as a support of the organisation).
I, too, have never heard of the Palestinian flag ever having been banned in Germany.

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

@evan Palestine flag is not and has not been banned. Hamas flag is.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@evan It isn't illegal in Germany. What's your source for that?

[hook@toot.si]

@evan, ah ok. Safe travels!

I think there is a route back to London, if it happens to coincide with your plans.

Also, you're welcome to join us at the pinball museum today, if that's your jam.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@jwildeboer

Search for "Palestine flag Germany arrest" and you can find quite a few examples. It seems to happen mostly at protests, though, and rarely if ever at airport coffee bars.

[unixmercenary@infosec.exchange]

@evan the Palestine flag was never, to my knowledge, illegal in Germany. You're thinking of German Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch ) Section 86a, deemed to ban symbols of what the Federal Constitutional Court declares terrorist organizations. Thus, the flags of Hamas, PFLP, and Hezbollah are so classified, but not the Palestine one.

(Disclaimer: Not an expert, and I've relied on secondary sources in English, not primary ones auf Deutsch.)

[ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org]

@evan Most probably not legally forbidden but will attract unwanted attention by the police forces and will try to find any excuse to bother and detain you. @jwildeboer

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@ghostdancer @evan I’ve participated at several protests with my Palestine flag and never ran into problems. I checked with local authorities just to be sure and got confirmation: the flag of Palestine is not illegal.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

Uh oh. In a brunch place in Brussels. Can't check into my AirBnB for another 56 minutes and I'm so tired I'm dissociating. On the other hand this yogurt parfait is hitting the spot.

[xurxodiz@mastodon.gal]

@evan where 👀

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@xurxodiz

Fr
ank.