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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"
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
What in the world, why does Israel control what people say? So weird
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
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.
Only anti-Semites confuse anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.
No. Only Zionists confuse the two.
Zionists deliberately confuse Zionists with Jews, putting Jews at risk. Deliberately putting Jews at risk is antisemitism. Zionists are antisemites.
She was denied a visa to Canada after she was asked two questions
Did any country ever deny you a visa? (Yes)
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.
This isn't Twitter or Reddit. You should never lie on a canada immigration form. That's called misrepresentation. Anyone who engages in misrepresentation will face denial of entry into the country (Article 40, Canadian Law on Immigration and citizenship).
When Immigration Canada discovered this, her visitor visa was automatically cancelled.
This politician is a tankie nutjob who happens to be a pro-palestinian activist.
She voted against every single EU resolution condemning Russia's war on Ukraine.
She shared on social media a picture of a politician with this message :
"He is a friend of genociders. He sleeps well at night. That will not last long"
Then he received this message :
"I see your empty eyes in the halls of the European Parliament. You should be afraid. It's just the beginning"
He ended up going to the police :
More recently, the French writer Boualem Sansal was jailed on bullshit charges in Algeria.
He did not have a fair trial. He didn't even get access to a lawyer.
The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to condemn his arrest and demand his release.
Rima Hassan was one of the only MEPs to vote against his release 🤦
One week ago, the European Parliament issued a warning against her:
The President had decided to impose a penalty on Rima Hassan for having recorded during a plenary session a Member of the European Parliament without his consent, and having subsequently disseminated the video on her social media accounts, accompanied by a personal comment.
Her behaviour had harmed Parliament’s reputation and the principle of mutual respect among Members.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-10_EN.pdf
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
No doubt this stemmed from here https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/policing-thought-french-bill-renewed-forms-antisemitism-accused-silencing-israel-critics
Israeli people seen to have embedded themselves in almost every (large) countries politics. It's also being noticed and will no doubt cause a massive push back.
Lawmaker, she's a MEP.
So at least the European Parlament should issue a statement.
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.
The tweet that Rima was arrested for
Literally just a recounting of historical events.
Hassan has previously been questioned by police over similar allegations and has been under investigation since late 2023 for statements related to Hamas following the Oct. 7 attacks.
Sounds line the government is just harassing her
I'd like to see why Canada first okay'd her visa, then revoked it the day before she was to travel ... because that kind of pull to do that comes from on high.
The answer is posted in this thread, but in brief, because she lied on her entry documents. No conspiracy, just stupidity.
What was the actual comment she made?
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.
She justified the terrorist attack in 1972 at an Israeli airport
jfc I'm getting so tired of news not including the critical information
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.
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:
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).
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.
How is it a campaign when it's her own words and actions that got her in trouble?
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 don't believe in arrests for speech, but justifying shooting up an airport is not my idea of anti-imperialism. Unless the case is being misrepresented, in which case fuck whoever made this arrest.
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 ?
The term #terrorist and #terrorism can easily been manilpulated fot the unjustified arrest.
glorifying terrorism
She was supporting the Israelis?