Call for demonstration on October 7th: Uninhibited homage to Hamas

Once again, pro-Palestinian groups in Berlin want to celebrate exactly that attack on the anniversary of the Hamas massacre on Israel. A call for a demonstration next Wednesday under the slogan “Until total liberation” says that October 7th has become “our beacon of steadfastness.”

The text circulating on social networks also states: The imprisoned Palestinian people "broke out strengthened by their conviction and dealt a blow to the heart of the settler-colonial project." The "myth of Zionism's invincibility" collapsed in a single day. In the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, around 1,200 people died, most of them civilians, and more than 250 were kidnapped.

According to the police, the demo, which will lead from the Schlesisches Tor to Hermannplatz in the evening, was registered by a private person - for 150 participants. It is promoted by several pro-Palestinian groups and protest networks that identify as left-wing, such as Global South United, the Alliance of Internationalist Feminists, Palestinians and Allies and Young Struggle.

The sharepic used for the demo call shows a bulldozer that has broken through a barbed wire fence. Hamas fighters also reached Israel this way from Gaza. The State Criminal Police Office has started an investigation into allegations of glorification of violence.

There was already a very similar call for a demonstration last year. The police also investigated and ultimately banned the elevator. Nevertheless, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the Red Town Hall in the evening, but were surrounded there by the police. There were numerous identity checks and arrests.

Structures of the Left Party did not share the call for the new demonstration. The Berlin State Working Group for Palestine Solidarity of the Berlin Left, whose speaker was recently subjected to exclusion proceedings, is instead promoting a demonstration on Saturday, October 10th. According to police registration, 3,000 participants want to come together at the Brandenburg Gate under the motto “United for Palestine”.

Organizers complain that with more than 1,200 Palestinians killed since the ceasefire in October 2025, the genocide in Gaza is not over. In a text they specifically call on the Left to support: "The Left is the only party in the Bundestag that addresses Germany's failure to name crimes committed by a core partner - Israel - that violate international law."