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Jewish academic arrested in UK over ‘terrorism’ after pro-Palestine speech (www.aljazeera.com)

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Retired Jewish professor Haim Bresheeth, a child of Holocaust survivors and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, was arrested under a UK anti-terrorism law after speaking at a recent pro-Palestinian protest in London.

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Arresting innocent people to intimidate them is a staple move.

[-] Chulk@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Not to mention the normalization of such a connection between pro-palestine and "terrorism". People who are out of the loop will read the headline and assume that the person arrested for terrorism is guilty. They'll start to associate the pro-Palestinian viewpoint with terrorism if enough arrests like these make it into headlines.

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