Chanting ‘from the river to the sea’ would be criminalised under proposed state law

  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    The idea that people breaking the law do not always get caught means there is no law is ridiculous, especially when you state people are being arrested for it.

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      21 hours ago

      ‘not getting caught’ as in being in a protest accompanied by a lot of policemen? They don’t go to a dark alley and whisper “free Palestine” in order to not “get caught” 😅

      There’s no law prohibiting to support Palestine. As you can see in the source I linked before. There are very controversial takes about what crosses the line. The famous “from the river to the sea” being one of it. People who are brought to court for that half go free, half get sentenced. That shows that even within “the system” it is very unclear. Thus, it’s about time to get a ruling by the highest court. I guess one day that will even go to the European Court, and I anticipate that it will rule in favor of free speech.

      And guess who’s arrested and brutalized by the police? PoC, because the police is racist, and voicing support for Palestine gives them a reason - like “I heard those PoC say ‘death to all Jews’, so let’s beat them up. If they defend themselves we bring them to court for resistance, all my police buddies heard it as well”. But not because there’s some distinguished law against “supporting Palestine”.