In 6 hours it will be illegal to say “I support Palestine Action” in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.

  • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I don’t know what it is about Israel that has made politicians the world over lose their minds.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      learn the term PEP

      Progressive Except Palestine.

      they are all nice and progressive but as soon as Palestine comes out, they flip flop or go full right wing and change sides.

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        5 months ago

        Of course, but, Europe also has a long history of being antisemitic. It just seems weird to me to fall over yourself for an ally that doesn’t seem especially valuable. Maybe there is some 4d chess that is lost to a peasant like me.

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                5 months ago

                By your definition of recent, I don’t know if I could. Of course, I don’t really agree that 25 years or even 30 years constitutes recent, and my ability to name a specific policy in that time frame doesn’t erase nearly 2 thousand years of Anti-semitism in the hearts (and sometimes law) of Europeans.