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Re:France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations by OfSanguineFire on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:52PM (#37861369)
Multiple governments have already come to feel that the sort of rhetoric that appears at these demonstrations, like chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, crosses the line into advocacy of genocide and are not mere opinions. Advocacy of genocide has been forbidden since long before COVID happened.

It’s important to remember that after the Holocaust, European nations have a special responsibility to the Jewish people, and therefore they often err on the side of caution in preventing that people from being targets of potentially genocidal rhetoric.

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Re:France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations by eli_gottlieb on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:02PM (#37861555)
>It’s important to remember that after the Holocaust, European nations have a special responsibility to the Jewish people, and therefore they often errs on the side of caution in preventing that people from being targets of potentially genocidal rhetoric.

Oh bloody fucking rubbish. French courts let a guy off on murdering a French Jew, in France, because he had smoked marijuana beforehand.

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Re:France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations by BrandoElFollito on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:33PM (#37862814)
Not exactly. The ruling is that he was mentally incapacitated and is now in a closed psychiatric hospital (from which he won't leave for a good amount of time).

You may like out not the idea of not putting in prison people who were not save at the moment of the event, or the way the qualifications are made but it has nothing to do with Jews in the case you mention.

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Re:France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations by mjr00 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:58PM (#37861486)
> Advocacy of genocide has been forbidden since long before COVID happened.

Really? Cause I remember post-9/11 it was a pretty mainstream opinion that America should go glass the middle east. And then, you know, America went and actually did start an awful, bloody war in the middle east that lasted for 20+ years. It was the anti-war people who were getting censored and accused of being terrorist sympathizers.

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Re:France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations by almatabata on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:18PM (#37861781)
France refused to go to war in Iraq which pissed the US so much they renamed french fries to freedom fries.
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Re:France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations by OfSanguineFire on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:00PM (#37861510)
The featured article is about France, not the USA.
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