Germany’s crackdown on Palestine solidarity activism reached a new level last month when the government announced that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is now under suspicion of being an “extremist group.” The Verfassungsschutzbericht 2023 (Constitutional Protection Report) from the Federal Ministry of Interior and Home Affairs, which was made public in late June, claims that BDS is a movement characterised by anti-Israel positions and statements, “and the structures and followers and supporters that can be attributed to it are related to secular Palestinian extremism.” The…