Journalist Taha Bouhafs was arrested while covering a protest in Paris on Oct. 14. “There were very violent arrests, people were getting strangled by the police,” Bouhafs told +972. “I was filming this, and at some point the police came toward me and arrested me. I showed them my press card, but they told me I was not doing a journalist’s job, and that I didn’t have any journalist’s equipment — even though I was using my phone.
“They fined me for participating in an illegal demonstration, even though I showed them my press card,” he continued. “They told me: ‘If we see you again at a protest, we will break your legs.'"

This is becoming an existential fight against authoritarianism.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

France 🤝 Israel
colonial racism

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

What do they think this will achieve exactly. It won't end well.

[–] stella@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Way to recruit more people for the Palestinian cause!

Censoring peaceful protests really shows how desperate Israel is to control people's thoughts.

[+] Fizz@lemmy.nz -38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Palestinians have legitimate reasons to protest but they keep getting mixed in with the "from the river to the sea crowd" remember if your protest allows nazis then it's a nazi protest.

Hard to take them seriously when they act like they are entitled to land that the they lost via conquest after they stuck their nose up at every attempt of negotiation. I haven't seen many Palestinians protesting the government of Gaza.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see a ton of human rights protesters in Israel either. Yeah some exist but by far most Israeli voters seem to support the "Palestinians are sub humans" rhetoric at the voting booth.

[–] UrbonMaximus@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Somehow I don't think that you're arguing in good faith, but anyway.. There were many pro Palestine protests in Tel Aviv University and up until recently the biggest protests Israel ever had were against the current government. It's also probably not possible to organise anything when you have to run to a shelter every hour to hide from rockets.

[–] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

‘From the river to the sea’: where does the slogan come from and what does it mean?

[–] AlexTheTurtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

There are currently nazis fighting in the Ukrainian army against Russia's imperialist invasion. Would you call the Ukrainian army a nazi army? Maybe the situation calls for us to focus on the state currenlty commiting a genocide against Palestinian people and not on the optics of the protests.

[–] stella@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

remember if your protest allows nazis then it’s a nazi protest.

What are you talking about? How are you going to prevent people from joining a protest on public land?

You must be one of those people who listens to soundbites as though they are gospel. The real world is a little bit more complicated than whatever you have going on in your head.