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Try talking about Palestine in US?
by asadlionpk 5y ago
Try talking about Palestine in US?
- mardifoufs 5y agoAre you implying you'd get arrested? I remember attending a Palestine/BDS protest in NYC a few years ago and nothing happening to me even as a canadian (muslim arab) visitor. I agree though that the restrictions on supporting BDS in some parts of the US are completely absurd. And I always find it funny that conservatives turn a completely blind eye to those laws (especially since it's in Texas! Pretty ironic). Yet the same laws often also apply in europe, and they are usually a lot stricter so my original point stands. >Hervieu pointed to a recent ruling by the Court of Cassation, France’s court of final appeal, which upheld the criminal convictions of 12 BDS activists who burst into a supermarket in 2009 wearing “Boycott Israel” shirts and handing out fliers that read, “Buying Israeli products means legitimising crimes in Gaza.” >The legislation means that what BDS activists regarded as political statements denouncing Israel’s violations of international law could be – and indeed were – treated by French courts as an "incitement" to hatred. https://www.france24.com/en/20160120-france-boycott-israel-bds-law-free-speech-antisemitism https://www.france24.com/en/20160120-france-boycott-israel-b...
- schoen 5y agoHmmm? The nearest Palestinian flag that I can think of on display in my neighborhood is just a few blocks from my house. Do you mean that the U.S. treats Palestinian activists poorly for visa purposes?
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoThe left pretty solidly supports Palestine over Israel. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Tlaib https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Tlaib