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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”
I’ve changed the title.
Thank you!
not a great rule considering how much clickbait even reputable news outlets engage in these days… can see it a bit even in this one…
The knife cuts both ways, in this case the post title is ragebait
the post title is ragebait
Seems like the events are rage bait
You as a poster should find a more reliable source then, than shitty articles with clickbait titles.
And you are free to downvote/skip/block other’s clickbait titled posts.
not really a solution when most of the news media engages in it and it’s not abour reliability per se, just about ambigous titles designed to make people click.
5 hours later. How much time we talking?
I generally give at least 8 hours because people need to, you know, sleep and work and stuff. OP fixed it at 8 hours.
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.
Israel isn’t a country
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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.
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.
I love that we never get to see the tweet, click bait article
I looked, it was deleted so the news sites are only able to paraphrase.
The tweet that she retweeted is posted in this thread, but not whether she had added commentary of her own
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The tweet that Rima was arrested for
“Something went wrong” can someone copy it please?
She retweeted this
Literally just a recounting of historical events.
Hassan has previously been questioned by police over similar allegations and has been under investigation since late 2023 for statements related to Hamas following the Oct. 7 attacks.
Sounds line the government is just harassing her
I’d like to see why Canada first okay’d her visa, then revoked it the day before she was to travel … because that kind of pull to do that comes from on high.
Wow, Its a wonder she doesnt get the death penalty for such an egregiously hateful post /s
please don’t link to Nazi platforms!
Again !?
You can join the IDF to commit genocide (and call for people to do so in synagoges), but woe to anyone praising the resistance.
You can join the IDF, do war crimes, run for office in both major American political parties, and scream antisemitism if anyone suggests being a member of a foreign military implies duel loyalty.
But woe to anyone recounting historical events
What in the world, why does Israel control what people say? So weird
If you say it’s because Zionist Jews have money and wield it like a hammer you’re ‘antisemitic.’ But also correct.
Absolutely not. Zionists have a lot of money, but most of those Zionists are not in fact Jews. Western imperialists see their interests aligning with Israel, so they support it with money and influence; it’s really that simple. Thinking Israel controls the West is like thinking the hammer controls the carpenter because he doesn’t want it stolen.
Yep. It really puts into perspective when you see that most of the ideological Zionists in the world are evangelical Christians, waiting for the second coming of Jesus.
Israel is the West’s last great colonial settler project so there has always been a predilection to turning a blind eye to international law in relation their geopolitical affairs. Far right authoritarians are often chummy with Netanyahu because he is living their colonial dream of genocide and displacement.
Why do they control what people say? I’m not sure it goes that far. But the cultural bias apparently runs deep enough in the West to ruin people’s lives over it if they dissent.
Why do they control what people say? I’m not sure it goes that far.
Pretty sure that’s the sole purpose of the Anti-Defamation League
You keep referring to “the West” like it’s a single monolithic entity.
Virtually is in this case. US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and many more countries literally defend Isreali’s right to starve children to death in front of our eyes. Violemtly and vehemently. All of the heavy hitters. Who in the west stands opposed? Maybe a tepid Spain? A few hundred years removed from relevance?
Source on Canada defending Israel’s right to starve children
Canada, UK, France, Germany, and many more countries literally defend Isreali’s right to starve children
All of these countries have either publicly condemned Israel or outright banned arms sales to them.
Who in the west stands opposed?
Pretty much everyone except America. Why do you think this is just a “west” issue?
On this matter I’m afraid it has been for at least half a century. Some of the loudest and most self righteous voices when it comes to international law become tepid or mute on this particular violation of it.
Like Ireland, or Spain, or Canada?
Depends on the timeline you’re looking at. Some western countries have calibrated their stance in recent years particularly.
It’s actually one of the positives of social media. Even just five to ten years ago Western media acted as a shield against truth, helping to promote dogmatic support for Israel even as it committed genocide.
Canada doesn’t really belong on this list, it has been fairly clearly pro Israel throughout most of the 21st century and before that.
Ireland has a unique experience with settler colonialism so tends to have a more balanced take amongst Western countries. More of a specific exception than the rule though.
Spain is somewhere in between but also an exception.
When I say the West I do mean more generally the majority of or the power centers within. Which would be the British empire (which created this mess) and its successor the American empire (which allows it to continue).
I’d also draw a distinction between the West in general and the Global South which, having borne the historical brunt of Western colonial genocide, displacement and theft, has been pro Palestinian throughout most of this conflict and didn’t need social media to see the reality of the situation.
is supporting the defunct japanese red army terrorist group controlled by israel
daaaaang!
also this party girl need to tidy up her disco baggies - ooopsies
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.
Only anti-Semites confuse anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.
No. Only Zionists confuse the two.
Zionists are a subset of antisemites.
Zionists deliberately confuse Zionists with Jews, putting Jews at risk. Deliberately putting Jews at risk is antisemitism. Zionists are antisemites.
The two aren’t exclusive. But not all antisemites are Zionists.
the conspiracy fantasies adopted by most commies happily conflate israel with the jews that control the world like the top comment in this post:
why do israel control what people say
the fantasy being that by some magical control mechanism the french government and laws are affected by??
stop hiding and playing this shell game just say what you really think
and as we know this antisemitic global conspiracy fantasy was invented by russia during the cold war - the home of poisonous communism
AIPAC literally funds American electoral candidates. The Western empire has a lot of interest vested in Israel. This is why Israel can still function as a settler-colonial state. It’s not the evli “commies” plotting against anyone.
What was the actual comment she made?
From what I understand she retweeted this but I haven’t seen it confirmed by mainstream media yet
Rima Hassan, a French far-left member of the European Parliament, was arrested on Thursday over a comment she posted on X last month about an attack on an Israeli airport in the 1970s, her fellow party member Jean-Luc Melenchon said.
The message was related to the 1972 attack by the Japanese Red Army far-left militant group at Lod airport in Tel Aviv, which resulted in 26 deaths.
It seems the media may not know what her exact comment was yet.
I mean, how many civilians are the IDF shooting in Gaza per day now? Especially with their new execution law?
Why are we supposed to get worked up about 26 deaths over 50 years ago given that context?
Why not both?
It is not about the number of death, it is about the apology of terrorism from a member of the European Parliament. When one disagrees with terrorisme doesn’t implies ones accept the genocide in Gaza
The entire EU parliament is straight up materially supporting a genocide but a retweet of resistance goes too far lol. What kind of moral standards do you think there are left?
jfc I’m getting so tired of news not including the critical information
She justified the terrorist attack in 1972 at an Israeli airport
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.
Is this what happened in the lead up to WW2? Obviously without the existence of the state of Israel
No, the Jewish people did not exert nearly the same influence as Israel does today despite the propaganda of the time claiming otherwise.
Is there any way to verify that now? My understanding is that Zionists bankrolled the war to accelerate the creation of official state of Israel
To be frank this theory you are positing is absurd.
Did a disparate group of people connected by religion have the same influence as the entire modern state of Israel? Absolutely not.
You are the one linking it to an entire religion. Zionists have long predated Israel and have had significant power. That’s literally why Israel exists!
How is that your understanding? What information or sources did you base that on?
I’m out and about right now but I’m surprised you don’t know about the Haavara agreement and the ongoings of banks at the time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Not the most fab sources but I’m travelling and have barely a bar of signal
Are you fucking sick in the head?
Hell no they didn’t. Hitler and crew didn’t need any help massacring everything that moved, and they were backed by German moneyed interests (you know, the people that stood to gain from his rule), not a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. In the first place, WWII didn’t contribute nearly as much as you’d expect to the creation of Israel; if anything it made the British acquiesce to Palestinian demands to secure their support. WWII was the culmination of European great power politics; besides, interwar Poland was one of Zionists’ most important patrons, and its loss almost destroyed the whole project.
Zionists were at work well before WW2, which is where the Nazis were actively helping set up the beginnings of Israel
Zionists took the wealth of Jews in Germany and did not let them take it to Palestine. This funded efforts leading to and including WW2
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.
Roughtly translated she wrote : Kozo Okamoto. I dedicated my whole life to the palestinian cause. When there is oppression, resistance is not only a right but a duty.
Kozo Okamoto is a japanese terrorist who killed civilians in a terrorist attack in 1972.
The apology of terrorism is illegal in France.
She is a member of the european Parliamant.
I hope these informations help to understant the context.
Wow, I’ll admit my guess was wrong: that’s a pretty clear endorsement of terrorism. I still don’t think she should be arrested.
Also I think it’s terrible journalism that they didn’t say specifically what she posted. That’s necessarily context. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks for posting the actual material. Well, that’s not looking great.
I don’t believe struggles can be fought without violence, that’s just what the naive and the supporters of the status quo want everyone to think. But when someone decide their contribution to a cause is to be an MP, they should either abide by the principles behind it or choose a different course of action. Just my 2ct obviously.
Lawmaker, she’s a MEP.
So at least the European Parlament should issue a statement.
