Germany cracks down: Armed police raids on Palestinian activists saif 5 months ago A Palestinian refugee and activist in Germany had his house raided after the government banned the Palestinian prisoner solidarity network Samidoun. Zaid Abdulnasser, who lives in Berlin, has been the target of a campaign by the German state and media to harass, intimidate and mischaracterise him as a 'radical Islamist' and 'Jew hater'. READ: US calls on Israel not to strip detained Palestinians