Comment on Waving Palestinian flag may be a criminal offence, Braverman tells police

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      They’ve been trying to clamp down on it since before Braverman was HS.

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    If you accidently throw bacon on to your neighbour’s garden

    I find this incredibly hard to believe. Why would anyone throw away perfectly delicious bacon? No sorry. This is an illogic.

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    • TediousParrot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It sounds possible, but these things happen:

      www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-36846555

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      • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Maybe it’s moldy?

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  • OwlPaste@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Well put, leave it to braveshit to fuck it up

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• Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Never let a populist opportunity go to waste. Torying rule book 101.

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• NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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• Nougat@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  They should make responding violently to flag waving a crime. Except for Nazis.

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  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You don’t think a Hamas flag represents pretty similar sentiment to the Nazi flag at present?

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• lemonflavoured@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It could be enforced that way as it is. Whether it would be is a different question.

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• PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Someone buy me a ticket and two flags. Time to visit the motherland.

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