Ahead of Oct 7 anniversary, pro-Palestinian activists defy police crackdown on displays of support for banned terror group
  • TacticsConsort@yiffit.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Gonna say it, this REALLY feels like a case of the news cherry-picking what parts of a protest they show. Between the unreasonable viewpoint that’s directly adjacent to a very sensible and popular viewpoint and the fact we KNOW the media have a very vested interest in trying to push pro-genocide narratives (such as anti-Israel protests being pro-terrorist)…

    Yeah, even someone as gullible as me? I’m not buying this.

    • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      This is the telegraph.

      Imagine Boris Johnson dressed in tweed and living in a cottage in Devon

      That’s their reader base

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      UK news sources are very prone to behaving like that, if you ever spent time in r/GreenAndPleasant it’s shocking how much UK news you dont hear about. Anything vaguely anti-crown just doesn’t get coverage. Or protests in general.

      It’s part of why they media bias bot is laughable given it considers BBC unbiased

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Really? You love militants who would probably rather kill you than have a coffee with you?

    • BMTea@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      What the hell are you even talking about? Where do you people get the idea that Hezbollah and every other Islamist entity is like ISIS? Do you know a single thing about Lebanon???

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I mean, they are picking militants who are opposing genocide. Choosing ‘would rather kill you’ over ‘are killing you’ is logical in a limited context.

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Oh, trust me, those militants are very much pro-genocide, they just haven’t quite figured out a way to be successful at it.

        • BMTea@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          Oh, trust me

          No thanks, guy who thinks the average person in Hezbollah wants to inexplicably kill a random British person rather than have coffee with them.

  • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
    22·
    10 days ago

    “Allah is above them”

    Maybe, but the flying spaghetti monster is even higher!

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    34·
    10 days ago

    Among the placards on display on the London march was one showing a silhouette of Nasrallah, with the words “We will not abandon Palestine”.

    One example. One.

    Others declared: “Hezbollah are not terrorists” and “I love Hezbollah”.

    How many? How many out of the entire crowd?

    The placards were on prominent display, despite the Metropolitan Police warning on Friday that it would crack down on any displays of support for prescribed terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

    What does “prominent display” mean in the context of a public protest?

    They had two photos of such signs, clearly from the same group of people. Which must be a pretty small group considering that is the entirety of their evidence.

    Frankly, I’m weighing deleting this article as misinformation.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Fun fact. There were known neonazis around Shandon Simpson with a Hezbollah flag at the Protests at the DNC convention like a month or two back and far right media in the anglosphere, some pro Netanyahu outlets in Israel and zionist “journalists” in Germany used this as “proof” how the protestor were all terrorists. Meanwhile there were videos where the carriers were interviewed and it was painstakingly obvious to be neonazi trolls aiming to sow dissent and create these kind of images. Even the ADL recognized the culprits.

      I have written something in my substack about it (in German) if anyone is interested. The images and a tweet of the ADL alone are enough to tell the key aspects of the story. https://salehdt.substack.com/p/taz-fallt-auf-rechtsextreme-trolle