• Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Try to go to an anti-genocide protest in EU and see how fast you get violently beat up, arrested or get cops at your door to have “a chat”. All tose things in Amsterdam you mentioned too.

    • DimlyLitFlutteringMoth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      Still not happened to me yet, and that is in the UK which has the far more authoritarian Policing Bill looming over us. That doesn’t make as interesting a soundbite though.

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        3 days ago

        Your individual experiences don’t negate all the things I mentioned, they are on video.
        And whatever bill you’re under doesn’t matter to other countries, they always find a reason or ‘special circumstances’ to break their own laws and act like hired goons for the zionist apartheid state.

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          3 days ago

          Yeah, Israel is shit, but unless you have a video for each of these protests being shut down in this way, that just isn’t the norm. Plenty of pro-Palestine protests and meetings here; outside Barclays, protesting specific businesses, sharing information in our most popular streets for tourism and shopping, musical protests at art galleries. Plenty going on, never even seen a police presence at these.

          Not to say it isn’t happening, but trying to paint Europe as some pro-Zionist totality is weird.

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      2 days ago

      Spain is part of the EU and nobody is “violently beat up”, arrested or having a visit from the cops for going to an anti-genocide protest.