After Montreal trip blocked, Rima Hassan arrested in France over social media post
(montrealgazette.com)
What in the world, why does Israel control what people say? So weird
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Lawmaker, she's a MEP.
So at least the European Parlament should issue a statement.
No doubt this stemmed from here https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/policing-thought-french-bill-renewed-forms-antisemitism-accused-silencing-israel-critics
Israeli people seen to have embedded themselves in almost every (large) countries politics. It's also being noticed and will no doubt cause a massive push back.
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You can join the IDF to commit genocide (and call for people to do so in synagoges), but woe to anyone praising the resistance.
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Only anti-Semites confuse anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.
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The term #terrorist and #terrorism can easily been manilpulated fot the unjustified arrest.
What was the actual comment she made?
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The tweet that Rima was arrested for
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We require headlines match the original, I'll give you time to fix it before removing it.
"After Montreal trip blocked, Rima Hassan arrested in France over social media post"
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She quoted someone who took part in a terrorist attack. I wonder if anyone will be arrested for quoting any of Israel's "founding fathers", or indeed anyone like Netanyahu or Ben-Gvir.
The empire wears no clothes
She crossed a line praising the Lod massacre perpetrators. It was not an attack on the IDF, it was an indiscriminate attack on random people in an airport.
That said, we live in an era where criminal and genocidal language is spewed by the leaders of Israel, the US, and other countries. If only the same high standards were applied to them too.
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This whole thing is Orwellian, but nothing more so imo than when stories like this report that someone was arrested for speech but doesn't actually tell us what the offending speech was.
I think it's pretty obvious that they know that they'll get in trouble with the same people if they share the message. It's quite sad.
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It's strange how this article mentions she is pro-palestiniens and forgot to mention she is from Palestinian decent. Overall this article doesn't provide much information about what has happened and why. Which tweet were used to accuse her ?
She was denied a visa to Canada after she was asked two questions
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Did any country ever deny you a visa? (Yes)
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Did you ever face lawsuits? (Yes)
Instead of answering the truth, she answered "No" to both questions.
In an online post, she argued she did that because "I think these questions aren't legitimate".
That was a major mistake
Immigration Canada really doesn't give a shit about what you think.
You should never lie on a federal immigration form. That's called misrepresentation. Any foreigner who engages in misrepresentation will face denial of entry into Canada (Article 40, Canadian Law on Immigration).
When Immigration Canada discovered this, her visitor visa was automatically cancelled.
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I don't believe in arrests for speech, but justifying shooting up an airport is not my idea of anti-imperialism. Unless the case is being misrepresented, in which case fuck whoever made this arrest.
I love that we never get to see the tweet, click bait article
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glorifying terrorism
She was supporting the Israelis?
French here, I think the information is confirmed. A weird campain is led against this woman, and at that point I'd call it harrassment, especially after the far right ambush set-up that led to the even weirder death of a young neo-nazi militant (the local intelligence had been following them, the police was present and they let the fight happen...), which was blamed on her conference being held nearby.
The Nemesis collective was linked to it as a planner of said ambush that went haywire. That femonationalist collective was endorsed by a former right-wing minister of national security.
I really think it's a sordid campain to undermine any french voice that would talk about the genocide in Gaza.
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lol, those assholes won't let you in if you had a DUI 20 years ago.
Fuck 'em, stay out and go spend your money in Mexico, it's a much nicer place.
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Again !?
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