Is there a less clearly biased source for this? I struggle to take articles seriously when they use emotive language and hyperbole in seemingly every sentence.
This article also straight up accuses NATO of waging a proxy war against Russia and says they’re using Ukraine as their battleground.
It repeatedly calls Russia’s invasion “NATO’s war” ffs
Calling this person a journalist is also a bit of a joke. From what I can see, he mostly just peddles tankie content and conspiracies on his YouTube channel. If that’s what passes as being a journalist these days we’re in real trouble lol
Is there a less clearly biased source for this?
The first page and a half of my Google news search brings up just a whole host of partisan sources, from The Times of Israel to the Tehran Times. I can genuinely find nothing from a UK paper or broadcaster. That’s a bit weird.
What did he actually say? Plenty of high-profile people have denounced what’s happening in Gaza. Either he said something ‘extra’ or he’s been singled out for some reason…
He claims he’s the first person to be arrested under this law, that was introduced in 2000, so he must have said something pretty “extra” if what he claims is true.
He says he was arrested under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 which makes it illegal to stay anything even remotely non critical about a “proscribed organisation” like Hamas. It is extraordinarily repressive.
To clarify this is part of what section 12 says:
Proscription makes it a criminal offence to: express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation.
I don’t have a problem with any element of that law.
I’m profoundly comfortable with people being arrested and imprisoned for substantial sentences for expressing support for Hamas and similar Jihadi terror groups.
Only a handful of countries consider Hamas a terror group. Funnily enough these are the same countries that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
This is a “leopards ate my face” law. It’s fine until you get caught up in it however unlikely that appears now.
You say only a handful of countries and then you list a shit ton of countries. Made to look smaller by lumping all of the EU into one country.
How many members are in the EU again?
There are 195 countries in the world.
Only a handful of countries consider Hamas a terror group. Funnily enough these are the same countries that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Those are also more or less the only countries I’d trust to be able to correctly identify a terrorist group.
This is a “leopards ate my face” law. It’s fine until you get caught up in it however unlikely that appears now.
I simply don’t support terrorist organisations. It isn’t difficult.
Hamas being designated a terrorist group arose because of US and Israeli pressure to de-legitimise any entity that represents Palestinians in the same way that the PLO was regarded as a terror group pre Oslo.
It is political repression and nothing more.
Many of these same countries branded Nelson Mandela and the ANC as a terror group.
This is political persecution of journalists who are asking the wrong questions.
It is incredible how repressive the West is towards anyone who challenges Israel’s Holocaust in Gaza.
