RIOT police lined the walls of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt’s Berlin HQ on Tuesday as it hosted a talk by UN special rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese.

Police vans queued outside and officers muscled in against the wishes of the paper’s management, saying they were there to “prevent danger” as the Italian lawyer spoke on “legal perspectives on the genocide in Gaza.”

Ms Albanese’s visit to Germany has exposed the grip anti-Palestine censorship has on the country, with both the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Free University of Berlin cancelling lectures she was due to give about Israeli violations of international law in the occupied territories.