Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified the watermelon symbol as a potential extremism indicator, but only under one specific condition: when it is used to draw the outline of a Palestinian state in place of Israel.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany's domestic security service, published a new dossier in May 2026 targeting what it calls 'secular pro-Palestinian extremism,' alongside an 80-page companion publication examining antisemitic codes and symbolic language circulating across extremist networks.
