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Following the cancellation of a controversial “Palestine Congress” planned for three days in Berlin, police in the German capital said they were expecting spontaneous protest events over the weekend. Police on Friday broke up the pro-Palestinian conference in the Tempelhof area of Berlin and asked some 250 participants to leave the venue just two hours into the three-day event. Officers had earlier intervened during remarks via video by an activist who is banned from political activity in Germany due to hate speech against Israel and Jews. When the man spoke police cut off the transmission and…