• RandAlThor@lemmy.caOP
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    1 year ago

    Are we still a democracy? Is dissent not allowed? Are we in Israel or Canada? How is taking an advocacy position for one people religious hate? Are we then to take all the pro-Israeli advocates as anti-islamic and should those not be deemed as religious hate as well? This sounds like a right-wing hell we are descending into Canada. [I don’t have a dog in this war.]

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      Depends on the posts actually, and looking at what this guy posted

      1. From river to the sea Palestine will be free = genocide/expel all Jews in-between
      2. Propagation of fake news of the hospital attack which has conclusively been proven to be a Hamas/Islamic Jihad malfunctioning rocket.
      3. Justifying murder of civilians, men, women, children, kidnapping of people because people were “oppressed”

      Seems like justified.

      Imagine someone posting about “From Ganges to Arabian Sea, India will be free”, or something similar implying expelling/killing of Muslims, they’d be fired from their job in the blink of an eye. How’d you feel about that? So why is this jew hatred to be tolerated?

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        From river to the sea Palestine will be free = genocide/expel all Jews in-between

        That’s far from the only interpretation.

        Do you have a link to the original comments? All I can find is the angry blog post accusing him, and it’s partly paywalled.

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        1 year ago

        Add to this that he was suspended (not jailed) and the country’s major public broadcaster posted this very article questioning the appropriateness of his suspension. He has a voice in the public media and also an opportunity to avail himself of the court system and seek damages. Are we still a democracy? Yeah, sounds like it to me.