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If they make waving Palestinian flags in Jewish neighbourhoods a crime (and there is a case for it being a public order offence), they should also make waving Israeli flags in neighbourhoods with large Arab or Muslim populations an equivalent crime.
As with everything it comes down to intent and context.
If you accidently throw bacon on to your neighbour's garden, it's probably a mistake.
If you purposefully throw bacon on to your neighbour's garden, it's probably littering.
If you specifically throw bacon on their garden because they are jewish/muslim/vegetarian, etc, it's probably a public order offence.
The people that run the friends of palestine stand in the centre of town handing out leaflets on a Saturday afternoon and encouraging boycotting products from illegal settlements aren't doing anything wrong.
But someone who purposefully goes to a Jewish part of a town to wave a flag for the sole purpose of antagonising those who live there, it's probably a public order offence.
In Australia, the people handing out leaflets calling for boycotts would have been committing a federal crime (at least a few years ago), as advocating boycotts of allied countries was outlawed under the expansion of sedition laws after 9/11. I’m guessing Cruella is taking notes.
They've been trying to clamp down on it since before Braverman was HS.
Well put, leave it to braveshit to fuck it up
I find this incredibly hard to believe. Why would anyone throw away perfectly delicious bacon? No sorry. This is an illogic.
Maybe it's moldy?
It sounds impossible, but these things happen:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-36846555
That wasn't accidental though. That was pretty blatantly racist.
Dont worry about it I was just making a joke about accidental bacon throwing.
How would someone accidentally throw bacon into their neighbor's garden?
I lived in a house once that only had a little 1m high fence between the front gardens / drive of my house and next door.
The bins for each house were either side of that small fence, so basically next to each other. I'm sure if a bin bag had split when I was putting it in the bin the bag's contents would have fallen on both sides of the fence.
Anyway, the point is simply that things can happen purely accidently and not break the law, which in another context - especially when done with purpose and intend - would break the law.
I get your meaning, it's just a really odd/funny example.
Never let a populist opportunity go to waste. Torying rule book 101.
How often does that realistically happen, there aren't cars full of Jews doing laps of Whitechapel with Isreali flags when this kicks off, it's always the other way around.
The tough guys waving Israeli flags aren’t necessarily Jewish; there’s a breed of troll for whom the Israeli flag is a convenient prop
They should make responding violently to flag waving a crime. Except for Nazi flags.
You don't think a Hamas flag represents pretty similar sentiment to the Nazi flag at present?
It could be enforced that way as it is. Whether it would be is a different question.
Someone buy me a ticket and two flags. Time to visit the motherland.