Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act

• Streamwave@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only a handful of countries consider Hamas a terror group. Funnily enough these are the same countries that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

  Those are also more or less the only countries I’d trust to be able to correctly identify a terrorist group.

  This is a “leopards ate my face” law. It’s fine until you get caught up in it however unlikely that appears now.

  I simply don’t support terrorist organisations. It isn’t difficult.

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  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Many of those countries also thought Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.

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    • Streamwave@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The PLO was a terror group.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma'alot_massacre

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      • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes that’s my point. They were a terror group and then weren’t when the US decided. In the same way that Sudan was a state sponsor of terror until the US decided otherwise.

        www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55300252

        In both cases it was recognising the occupation of Palestine.

        Also if committing massacres made the PLO a terror group then surely the IDF should be a terror group many times over since October 7th but instead it receives billions in funding and weapons from the US and UK

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_massacre

        …wikipedia.org/…/Nuseirat_refugee_camp_massacre

        As I said it is a form of political repression.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You say only a handful of countries and then you list a shit ton of countries. Made to look smaller by lumping all of the EU into one country.

  How many members are in the EU again?

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  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are 195 countries in the world.

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