If what you took from the book was "thoughtcrime is only when someone's literal thoughts are illegal, and whenever those thoughts manifest themselves, it's something else", then you are missing the forest for the trees. Is Winston arrested when he thinks subversive thoughts about the Party? Of course not; he's arrested when he colludes with whom he assumes are allies of Goldstein. By your own definition, there is no instance of thoughtcrime detected or punished in 1984. Even Parsons was actually reported by his daughter for denouncing Big Brother in his sleep.

I am not making any argument about European hate speech laws whatsoever. My issue is solely with the pedantic definition of the word "thoughtcrime" that is at odds with how it's actually used.