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Comment on Waving Palestinian flag may be a criminal offence, Braverman tells police
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 months ago
If they make waving Palestinian flags in Jewish neighbourhoods a crime (and there is a case for it being a public order offence), they should also make waving Israeli flags in neighbourhoods with large Arab or Muslim populations an equivalent crime.
Syldon@feddit.uk 8 months ago
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 8 months ago
How often does that realistically happen, there aren’t cars full of Jews doing laps of Whitechapel with Isreali flags when this kicks off, it’s always the other way around.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 months ago
The tough guys waving Israeli flags aren’t necessarily Jewish; there’s a breed of troll for whom the Israeli flag is a convenient prop
Nougat@kbin.social 8 months ago
They should make responding violently to flag waving a crime. Except for Nazis.
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You don’t think a Hamas flag represents pretty similar sentiment to the Nazi flag at present?
lemonflavoured@kbin.social 8 months ago
It could be enforced that way as it is. Whether it would be is a different question.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Someone buy me a ticket and two flags. Time to visit the motherland.
hellothere@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
As with everything it comes down to intent and context.
If you accidently throw bacon on to your neighbour’s garden, it’s probably a mistake.
If you purposefully throw bacon on to your neighbour’s garden, it’s probably littering.
If you specifically throw bacon on their garden because they are jewish/muslim/vegetarian, etc, it’s probably a public order offence.
The people that run the friends of palestine stand in the centre of town handing out leaflets on a Saturday afternoon and encouraging boycotting products from illegal settlements aren’t doing anything wrong.
But someone who purposefully goes to a Jewish part of a town to wave a flag for the sole purpose of antagonising those who live there, it’s probably a public order offence.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 months ago
In Australia, the people handing out leaflets calling for boycotts would have been committing a federal crime (at least a few years ago), as advocating boycotts of allied countries was outlawed under the expansion of sedition laws after 9/11. I’m guessing Cruella is taking notes.
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They’ve been trying to clamp down on it since before Braverman was HS.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I find this incredibly hard to believe. Why would anyone throw away perfectly delicious bacon? No sorry. This is an illogic.
TediousParrot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
It sounds possible, but these things happen:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-36846555
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 8 months ago
That wasn’t accidental though. That was pretty blatantly racist.
Dont worry about it I was just making a joke about accidental bacon throwing.
hellothere@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Maybe it’s moldy?
OwlPaste@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well put, leave it to braveshit to fuck it up