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A federal court has issued a ruling that redefines the boundaries of free speech in the United States. Judge Trevor N. McFadden ruled that ‘desecrating’ the Israeli flag is not political expression but racial discrimination.

The decision means burning, tearing, or grabbing the Israeli flag can be prosecuted as hate conduct. By contrast, the US Supreme Court has long protected the burning of the American flag under the First Amendment.

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[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In backwards nazi america: Burning a quran is free speech. Burning Gaza and its inhabitants to the ground is self defense. But burning the symbol of a genocidal fascist death cult is a "hate crime".

Death to america Death to israel

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 52 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So the Israeli flag is more important than the US flag since you can burn the US flag. Let that sink in to all the MAGA folks.

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

I don’t trust them to come to the correct conclusion with that information.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Isn’t burning a flag to proper way to dispose of it without technically desecrating it? I swear i read that somewhere.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

You're at least partially correct. Ceremonial Burning is the proper way to dispose of the US flag source. They do specify it should be done in a respectful manner, but a disrespectful burning is protected political speech (until now, I guess).

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nazi flag is holy in AmeriKKKa

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

I had no desire to burn an Israel flag before today.

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 20 points 6 months ago

So tired of partisan judges WTF.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Time to rekindle the hexbear struggle session:

israel-cool

[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

From Palestinian academic Afif Aqrabawi just the other day.

"The Star of David is no longer a religious emblem; it is the geometry of pain, the symbol of massacre and the face of evil.

Palestinians meet it on warplanes, checkpoints, tanks, and uniforms that invade their homes and drag away their children. For decades it has meant occupation, humiliation, starvation, death — the corporate logo of apartheid.

Every incinerated body, every bombed hospital, every mass grave is signed with that star. It is policy, a brand of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

The Star of David is a hate symbol that performs the work of hate: it terrifies, injures, dehumanizes, and proclaims our suffering as divine order. It is not neutral. It is not redeemable. It has been weaponized too completely, for too long. What remains is only the insignia of a terrorist organization that slaughters children under its banner — the flag planted in Gaza’s ruins, the badge of a system built on our extermination.

The Star of David is the mark of my oppressor; to claim it is to be a child-killer and my enemy."

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can't have a struggle if the mods just ban dissenters who make good points and call them out. Real yikes stuff going on in your thread over there defending this kind of logic.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Oh good lord its a sticky...

Looks like its near unanimous support for changing the emoji even the mods. AFAIK the only person banned was Z_poster and the mods just hate Z regardless if they're extremely correct on this issue. Hell, I've got Z blocked years ago for being a toxic debate bro.

[–] EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 months ago
[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Zionist states of Amerikkka amerikkka

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Jewish cabal conspiracy believers eating good with this one. How else do you explain it(beyond the actual reality that americans being against america does not pose any threat to america thus it is allowed; but if enough americans are anti-israel, the weapons might get cut off and it's over for the entity)? Sometimes it seems like the project of zionism is exclusively created to prove antisemites correct.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

"Ohhhh fuck, why didn't I think of that???"

Average Zionist authority reading Nazi conspiracy theories.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago

conflating antisemitism with antizionism is their only strategy to justify the genocide so they will try everything in their power to make it seem so.

[–] Moonstruck_Theorist@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Oh boy, time to learn about the regional/more localized flags!

edit: for vexillological purposes, of course.