It was supposed to be a three-day major event where grassroots activists and leading figures advocating for justice for Palestine – From Ghassan Abu Sitta, to Yanis Varoufakis and Noura Erekat – would come together in a defiant show of force. A European-wide collective of more than 54 groups and movements wanting to create a joint movement to hold Israel to account, and Germany for its complicity in the war on Gaza. But everyone attending the event had a premonition that the Palestine Congress may not be held at all. So anticipated was the German state response, with hundreds of police officer…