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    23 hours ago

    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”

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    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 scared eyes in the halls of the European Parliament. You should be afraid. It’s just the beginning”

    He ended up going to the police.

    https://www.franceinfo.fr/politique/la-france-insoumise/francois-xavier-bellamy-depose-plainte-contre-rima-hassan-apres-que-l-eurodeputee-lfi-a-profere-une-menace-a-son-encontre-dans-un-tweet_6686187.html

    More recently, the French writer Boualem Sansal was jailed on bullshit charges in Algeria.

    https://www.pen-international.org/news/algeria-novelist-boualem-sansal-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison

    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 this resolution 🤦

    https://www.20minutes.fr/politique/4135328-20250124-inhumain-honte-vote-rima-hassan-liberation-sansal-fait-reagir-explique

    One week ago, the EU 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

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    She was denied a visa to Canada after she was asked two questions

    1. Did any country ever deny you a visa? (Yes)

    2. 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 “I think these questions aren’t legitimate”.

    That was a major mistake

    Immigration Canada really doesn’t give a shit about what you think.

    You should never lie on a federal immigration form. That’s called misrepresentation. Any foreigner who engages in misrepresentation will face denial of entry into Canada (Article 40, Canadian Law on Immigration).

    When Immigration Canada discovered this, her visitor visa was automatically cancelled.

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    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.

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    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 ?

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    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.

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        Because of the repetitive pattern of sham/shallow accusations which goal is only to give the collaborationist media more material for constant defamation (on her, but also on every leftist voice speaking against the genocide in Gaza and such, which is immediately tagged as “antisemitism” for easy silencing -it’s a globally used strategy, so nothing unfamiliar here, you’ve probably seen it used against many people who are raising their voice against Israel’s crimes against humanity, or their current expansion war -which they roped the USA into). For instance, she has been summoned by the police for her deleted tweet, and they “found” drugs in her purse, except 1- I won’t believe a person summoned to an appointment with the police can be stupid enough to BRING DRUGS in their purse (it was later denied by her lawyer anyway). 2- The info was leaked to collaborationist medias DURING the police custody, which is supposedly both impossible and illegal UNLESS the police themselves leaked something for the medias to gnaw on. And it’s always like that. As for the tweet that got her in “trouble”, it was okay according to international laws (relative to the right of an occupied/subjected to apartheid nation to bear arms to resist the occupant). So, yeah, in France, the collusion of the ultra-rich and far-right media is established, so much so that most people don’t even listen to them anymore. Whatever the country you’re from, the fascists have the same modus operandi, so if you hear corporate media say something and the story is too good to be true, then assume it’s simply no true, especially during war.

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    14 hours ago

    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.

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      I looked, it was deleted so the news sites are only able to paraphrase.

      The tweet that she retweeted is posted in this thread, but not whether she had added commentary of her own

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      14 hours ago

      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

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        14 hours ago

        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.

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    You can join the IDF to commit genocide (and call for people to do so in synagoges), but woe to anyone praising the resistance.

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      She’s praising a terrorist attack against civilians. That’s not resistance, that’s terrorism. If you’re going to pretend to care human rights then it has to be universally applied otherwise you’re just a hypocrite.

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      14 hours ago

      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

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      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. 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.

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        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

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        You keep referring to “the West” like it’s a single monolithic entity.

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          Virtually is in this case. US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and many more countries literally defend Isreali’s right to starve children to death in front of our eyes. Violemtly and vehemently. All of the heavy hitters. Who in the west stands opposed? Maybe a tepid Spain? A few hundred years removed from relevance?

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            Canada, UK, France, Germany, and many more countries literally defend Isreali’s right to starve children

            All of these countries have either publicly condemned Israel or outright banned arms sales to them.

            Who in the west stands opposed?

            Pretty much everyone except America. Why do you think this is just a “west” issue?

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          On this matter I’m afraid it has been for at least half a century. Some of the loudest and most self righteous voices when it comes to international law become tepid or mute on this particular violation of it.

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              Depends on the timeline you’re looking at. Some western countries have calibrated their stance in recent years particularly.

              It’s actually one of the positives of social media. Even just five to ten years ago Western media acted as a shield against truth, helping to promote dogmatic support for Israel even as it committed genocide.

              Canada doesn’t really belong on this list, it has been fairly clearly pro Israel throughout most of the 21st century and before that.

              Ireland has a unique experience with settler colonialism so tends to have a more balanced take amongst Western countries. More of a specific exception than the rule though.

              Spain is somewhere in between but also an exception.

              When I say the West I do mean more generally the majority of or the power centers within. Which would be the British empire (which created this mess) and its successor the American empire (which allows it to continue).

              I’d also draw a distinction between the West in general and the Global South which, having borne the historical brunt of Western colonial genocide, displacement and theft, has been pro Palestinian throughout most of this conflict and didn’t need social media to see the reality of the situation.

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      If you say it’s because Zionist Jews have money and wield it like a hammer you’re ‘antisemitic.’ But also correct.

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        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.

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          Yep. It really puts into perspective when you see that most of the ideological Zionists in the world are evangelical Christians, waiting for the second coming of Jesus.

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      is supporting the defunct japanese red army terrorist group controlled by israel

      daaaaang!

      also this party girl need to tidy up her disco baggies - ooopsies

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        Zionists deliberately confuse Zionists with Jews, putting Jews at risk. Deliberately putting Jews at risk is antisemitism. Zionists are antisemites.

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      the conspiracy fantasies adopted by most commies happily conflate israel with the jews that control the world like the top comment in this post:

      why do israel control what people say

      the fantasy being that by some magical control mechanism the french government and laws are affected by??

      stop hiding and playing this shell game just say what you really think

      and as we know this antisemitic global conspiracy fantasy was invented by russia during the cold war - the home of poisonous communism

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        AIPAC literally funds American electoral candidates. The Western empire has a lot of interest vested in Israel. This is why Israel can still function as a settler-colonial state. It’s not the evli “commies” plotting against anyone.

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    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.

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      https://www.reuters.com/world/french-far-left-member-european-parliament-rima-hassan-held-police-custody-2026-04-02/

      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.

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        I mean, how many civilians are the IDF shooting in Gaza per day now? Especially with their new execution law?

        Why are we supposed to get worked up about 26 deaths over 50 years ago given that context?

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            Why not both?

            Because we can still stop tomorrow’s deaths in Gaza, technically.

            The perpetrators are still effectively the same people who committed the crime.

            The terrorists of 50 yo are likely already dead, the entire topology of their cause changed. It is pointless.

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          It is not about the number of death, it is about the apology of terrorism from a member of the European Parliament. When one disagrees with terrorisme doesn’t implies ones accept the genocide in Gaza

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            The entire EU parliament is straight up materially supporting a genocide but a retweet of resistance goes too far lol. What kind of moral standards do you think there are left?