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BettBeat’s Newsletter · Aug 13, 2026

Why Power Hates Palestine

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Bahraini riot police broke up a march in October 2023 and referred six men to the public prosecution. Human Rights Watch documented scores of interrogations across the kingdom, some involving children.

In Berlin, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day of that same month, police waded into an anticolonial demonstration outside the Foreign Ministry and seized the people holding Palestinian flags, telling organizers that Palestine had ‘nothing to do with colonialism’. The Berlin Senate issued a directive to schools on October 13 authorizing bans on the keffiyeh, on maps of Palestine, and on the words Free Palestine, on the grounds that such things could be interpreted as endorsing violence and might disturb the peace of the classroom. The European Legal Support Centre counted six hundred detentions in Berlin in nine days.

On October 12, the French interior minister sent a telegram to the pref…

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