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"Free Palestine, F Israel" being treated as a threat is consistent with how all other Palestine/Israel speech is treated. E.g. in the UK if you said that in pub
by tardedmeme 4mo ago
"Free Palestine, F Israel" being treated as a threat is consistent with how all other Palestine/Israel speech is treated. E.g. in the UK if you said that in public you'd be considered a terrorist sympathiser (which is criminal). If you said it in Germany you'd be considered a Nazi (which is criminal). If you said it in the USA, they couldn't directly criminalise you based on speech but they'd find something else, like public nuisance or being a terrorist. So I'm not really surprised by this at all.
- godelski 4mo ago> If you said it in Germany you'd be considered a Nazi Damn. If that's true then we're really labeling the wrong group of people as "Nazis". (I don't believe it's actually true though) I mean we do understand that "Israel", "Jews", and "Zionists" are 3 different things, right?
- tardedmeme 4mo agoThe German government either does not understand that, or pretends not to understand that. Saying "F Israel" would be treated as a hate crime against Jews, which is treated even stronger than a regular hate crime due to history.
- throw297536 4mo agoAntisemites use the terms “Zionists” as a dog whistle for Jews. I can show you threads on HN where it’s obvious from the context or where they’re used interchangeably. This isn’t a new idea either. The Polish ethnically cleansed much of their last remaining Jews in 1968 with a campaign against “Zionism”. https://www.polin.pl/en/march-68 https://www.polin.pl/en/march-68