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Curious as to what she was saying. Like if it's along the lines of kill of Jews, then yeah she deserves more than a visit. If she's saying "fuck israel for the fascist shit they are doing" then yeah those cops shouldn't have paid any mind to those complaints.
That's the thing .... if it were threats of death or violence, then the police would have said so and formally charged her with something.
Instead, they just go knocking on her door to ask her to stop saying bad things online.
The police have far more serious matters to deal with than to spend an hour or two to go visit someone's home to ask them to stop saying disagreeable things online about a foreign government.
Exactly, ACAB
You're making a lot of assumptions. The police don't do full arrest the first time. It's an escalation. Even when it comes to hate speech laws. You don't actually get charged for it unless you're relentless and people are pissed. You can post hate speech online and get away with it a million times, but a more public figure might get a warning visit or letter
Issue is there is a deliberate effort being made to conflate the two. There are an unfortunate many who genuinely believe that any and all criticism of the state of Israel is onto itself a form of antisemitism. I imagine after the Conservative Party wins the next federal election, such sentiments will only get worse.
Lets fucking hope they don't win