Thousands March In Freedom For Palestine Protest In Berlin

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 4: Police arrest a demonstrator after he climbed down from a fountain in which he was waving a Palestinian flag as thousands of protesters participate in a "Freedom for Palestine" demonstration on November 4, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. After the militant Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, attacked Israel on October 7, killing over 1,300 Israelis and foreign nationals, Germany, as perpetrator of the Holocaust, has had to reconcile its own past with the rights of those in the country who support Palestinian causes, including self-determination for residents of the Occupied Territories as well as the right to mourn victims of Israel's retaliation for the attacks and to publicly demonstrate. The German government's expectation of acts of violence and property damage and a definition of antisemitism, that some say is broad in its criticism of Israel, have left local governments from an outright ban of protests that feature pro-Palestinian sentiment, to permitting those that do not display such symbols and slogans and allowing them but with restrictions based on what is considered too likely to incite hatred, violence and destruction, often cancelling some protests shortly after they begin. (Footage by Adam Berry/Getty Images)