Protester ebreo accusato di “molestie razziali” rispetto al segno anti-hezbollah
https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/jewish-protester-charged-racial-harassment-anti-hezbollah-sign/
di Anony_mouse202
Protester ebreo accusato di “molestie razziali” rispetto al segno anti-hezbollah
https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/jewish-protester-charged-racial-harassment-anti-hezbollah-sign/
di Anony_mouse202
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“The placard featured a drawing of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah holding a pager to his face, with the words “beep, beep, beep””
> The Telegraph published police interview footage in which an officer asked the counter-protester: “Do you think that showing this image to persons protesting who are clearly pro-Hezbollah and anti-Israel that by doing so would stir up racial hatred further than it is already?”
I was trying to say something clever about this, but I just can’t. I hope they were just ignorant or this was a failed way to try to prevent a riot they knew they had no chance to stop.
This is what happens when you have vaguely written laws like the 2003 Communications act and the 2006 religious hatred act. It allows police to apply these laws arbitrarily.
How can it be “racial harassment” if both parties are Indo-Europeans?
So, the guy who’s been charged is identified as being Jewish in the news headline, and the charge is “causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by words or writing.” – but the ‘distressed’ party is not identified in the argument, or defined.
Sounds like a wishy-washy law to me. Shouldn’t an anti-Hezbollah (proscribed as a terrorist organization since 2019) protest be legal? Who is it offending other than anyone who’s pro-Hezbollah?
You know what, although I think this charge is over the top, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If Israel wants to conflate political positions with ethnic and religious identity, and claim that any anti-Israel protest is antisemitic, then the same can apply to Arab Muslim Palestinians.
It takes some ridiculous cases like this to make people wake up and realise (i) how dumb and censorious the “incitement to racial or religious hatred” law is, and (ii) how aggressively censorious the conflation of Israel and Judaism is.
Hey now, you can’t just go around saying mean things about terrorist groups, think of all the feelings you will hurt!
He should have listened to the rhyme they teach in schools now, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will get you sent to prison.