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!
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.
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.
Lawmaker, she’s a MEP.
So at least the European Parlament should issue a statement.glorifying terrorism
She was supporting the Israelis?
She crossed a line praising the Lod massacre perpetrators. It was not an attack on the IDF, it was an indiscriminate attack on random people in an airport.
That said, we live in an era where criminal and genocidal language is spewed by the leaders of Israel, the US, and other countries. If only the same high standards were applied to them too.
She’s praised the perpetrators? When? Can you link it?
Further down the thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/23021213
Oof
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
She’s praising a terrorist attack against civilians. That’s not resistance, that’s terrorism. If you’re going to pretend to care human rights then it has to be universally applied otherwise you’re just a hypocrite.
She was denied a visa to Canada after she was asked two questions
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Did a country ever deny you a visa? (Israel did)
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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 “these questions aren’t legitimate”.
That was a major mistake
Immigration Canada really doesn’t give a shit about what you think.
You can not lie on a canada immigration form. That’s called misrepresentation. Anyone who knowingly engages in misrepresentation must face immediate denial of entry into the country (Article 40, Canadian Law on Immigration and citizenship).
When Immigration Canada discovered this, her visitor visa was cancelled.
Any chance you can provide a source on that? It sounds believable, but it’s not mentioned in the article OP posted, and I can’t find anything else that confirms it. All reporting I’ve read says that CBSA refused to comment (as expected, since it concerns private information).
Israel isn’t a country
People like her that being self righteous assholes makes them exempt from the law.
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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.
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.
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.
This woman is a tankie nutbag who happens to be a pro-palestinian activist.
She voted against every EU resolution condemning Russia’s war on Ukraine.
When the French writer Boualem Sansal was jailed on bullshit charges in Algeria, that case was denounced by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The European Parliament called for his immediate release. She was one of the only MEPs to vote against his release.
It’s strange how this article mentions she is pro-palestiniens and forgot to mention she is from Palestinian decent. Overall this article doesn’t provide much information about what has happened and why. Which tweet were used to accuse her ?
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
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.
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.
I think 2 things are true here:
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The government and billionaire media are really nipping at her heels, trying to turn anything related to her into a scandal. See the recent “drug scandal” which turned out to be a nothingburger (she was carrying CBD).
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She has tankie-adjacent views, and quoting a guy who did a mass shooting in a civilian airport is in really poor taste. I can’t defend it, “terrorism apologia” seems accurate here.
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How is it a campaign when it’s her own words and actions that got her in trouble?
Because of the repetitive pattern of sham/shallow accusations which goal is only to give the collaborationist media more material for constant defamation (on her, but also on every leftist voice speaking against the genocide in Gaza and such, which is immediately tagged as “antisemitism” for easy silencing -it’s a globally used strategy, so nothing unfamiliar here, you’ve probably seen it used against many people who are raising their voice against Israel’s crimes against humanity, or their current expansion war -which they roped the USA into). For instance, she has been summoned by the police for her deleted tweet, and they “found” drugs in her purse, except 1- I won’t believe a person summoned to an appointment with the police can be stupid enough to BRING DRUGS in their purse (it was later denied by her lawyer anyway). 2- The info was leaked to collaborationist medias DURING the police custody, which is supposedly both impossible and illegal UNLESS the police themselves leaked something for the medias to gnaw on. And it’s always like that. As for the tweet that got her in “trouble”, it was okay according to international laws (relative to the right of an occupied/subjected to apartheid nation to bear arms to resist the occupant). So, yeah, in France, the collusion of the ultra-rich and far-right media is established, so much so that most people don’t even listen to them anymore. Whatever the country you’re from, the fascists have the same modus operandi, so if you hear corporate media say something and the story is too good to be true, then assume it’s simply no true, especially during war.
Sure, but in this case she supported and praised an indiscriminate terrorist attack on civilians. That’s grounds for legal trouble regardless of who you are.
Yup, I’ve read up on it and apparently she erased said tweet. Surely she did it because she realized it would end up badly
The empire wears no clothes
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.
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
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 from the West. 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.
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?
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?
What was the actual comment she made?
She justified the terrorist attack in 1972 and an Israeli airport
jfc I’m getting so tired of news not including the critical information
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?
Why not both?
Because we can still stop tomorrow’s deaths in Gaza, technically.
The perpetrators are still effectively the same people who committed the crime.
The terrorists of 50 yo are likely already dead, the entire topology of their cause changed. It is pointless.
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?
