ANNOUNCEMENT: Berlin Administrative Court holds hearing for lawsuit of BT3P against German Bundestag on October 7, 2021

In May 2020, the Palestinian-Jewish-German initiative Bundestag 3 for Palestine (BT3P) filed a lawsuit against the German Bundestag's anti-BDS resolution of May 17, 2019 before the Berlin Administrative Court (Case No. VG 2 K 79/20). The legal goal of BT3P is to achieve the nullity of the anti-BDS resolution.

BT3P support the BDS campaign and claim that the German Bundestag resolution suppresses advocacy for Palestinian human rights by excluding them from public institutions and defaming them as "anti-Semitic." The initiative considers the resolution a violation of its basic democratic rights (Article 1(1) of the Basic Law, Article 5(1) of the Basic Law, Article 8(1) of the Basic Law, and Article 9(1) of the Basic Law). In addition, the decision undermines international law and demonstrates anti-Palestinian racism. 

The Berlin Administrative Court now intends to rule after exchanging hundreds of pages and has summoned BT3P and the German Bundestag to an oral hearing on October 7, 2021 at 12pm. The hearing will take place in the office building of the Berlin Administrative Court at Kirchstraße 7 in Berlin.

The BT3P invite all interested parties to a rally in front of the building of the Berlin Administrative Court on October 7, 2021 at 11am. A press conference will take place directly after the hearing. Time and place will be communicated in due course.