Under pressure from the Zionist lobby the German authorities have decided to prevent Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat from entering the country for four years.
Barakat already failed to have his residency renewed and was forced to leave the country six months ago.
The German police had arrested Barakat in June 2019 while he was in Berlin to participate in a symposium about Trump’s Middle East plan. He was then given one month to leave the country.
The German police claimed in a 24-page statement that Barakat “constitutes a security risk” because of “his beliefs and continuous talking about liberating Palestine from the river to the sea” and “working on a strategy to liberate Palestine” in addition to “insisting that ‘Israel’ has no right to exist” which German authorities see as anti-Semitic.
The German authorities also claimed that its decision was taken because of Barakat’s intellectual influence on Arabs living in the country.
The reasons cited by the German authorities to justify its measure against Barakat vindicated that their decision was politically motivated and had nothing do with security or law.
Barakat had already been prosecuted by the German authorities over his support for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).
The German parliament had adopted a decision in May 2019 criminalizing BDS and labeling it as anti-Semitic a motion that was seen by human rights groups as a violation against freedom of expression.
