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A man climbed the flagpole outside Berlin’s Reichstag, the building that houses Germany’s parliament, on Sunday and raised a Palestinian flag.
The anti-Israel group Peacefully Against Genocide claimed responsibility.
The man replaced Germany’s Flag of Unity, which symbolizes the country’s 1990 reunification, atop a flagpole nearly 100 feet tall. The Palestinian flag flew for roughly an hour before authorities took it down. The German publication Bild said he and two accomplices were placed in custody.
“Governments worldwide do not act in the name of the people when they remain silent about, condone, or support the genocide in Palestine. We will call this genocide by its name, make it visible, and oppose it with our resistance,” Peacefully Against Genocide wrote on Instagram.
The genocide charge it levels at Israel is a modern permutation of the blood libel, the medieval lie that Jews murder Christian children for ritual purposes.
The Reichstag episode is the latest of its kind at a European landmark. Activists have also displayed Palestinian flags at London’s Big Ben and Paris’s Eiffel Tower.
A year ago, Peacefully Against Genocide was behind an incident in which protesters illegally scaled Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. Six people were detained.
Their banner read, “Never again genocide. Freedom for Palestine.” Video captured demonstrators chanting “Yalla, yalla, intifada.”
German police arrested three people in Berlin today after a man scaled the 30-metre flagpole outside the Reichstag, took down the German "Flag of Unity" and hoisted a Palestinian flag. Two accomplices filmed the climb. All three are suspected of insulting state symbols.… pic.twitter.com/nDnDJ5XuoG
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 8, 2026
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