A German court has upheld a police ban on a planned pro-Palestinian protest at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, ruling that the demonstration would likely violate the dignity of victims of the Nazi regime. Organizers of the vigil, titled 'Kufiyas in Buchenwald,' had intended to highlight what they described as ongoing genocide in Palestine, an allegation that Israel rejects.

Judges determined that holding the protest at the memorial site would be inappropriate given its historical significance and the suffering endured there. Authorities instead directed activists to gather in a public square in the nearby city of Weimar.

The decision follows earlier legal disputes involving political symbols at the memorial. In a separate case last year, a court ruled that memorial authorities were within their rights to deny entry to a visitor wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh, describing it as a political symbol that could affect the sense of security of Jewish visitors.

Buchenwald was one of the largest Nazi concentration camps, where tens of thousands of people were killed or died from starvation, forced labor, and executions during the Second World War.