Brickbat: Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

In England, a judge has ruled that London's Metropolitan Police cannot bar Niyak Ghorbani from attending pro-Palestinian protests. Ghorbani, an Iranian dissident, has become famous for attending such protests while carrying a sign that reads "Hamas is terrorist." He has been arrested by Met police three times at those protests. At his last arrest, he did not have the sign, but he was arrested for refusing to stand where a police officer told him. After that arrest, the police gave him a piece of paper saying that one of his bail conditions was "not to attend any protest relating to Israel or Palestine in the City of Westminster." The judge said that condition was not "necessary or proportionate."

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[SQRLSY One]

Brit-cop power pigs: "Stay in your place, do not peacefully say things among a tribe that you do not agree with, or else we will give you as much grief as we can get away with."

Wow, sounds EXACTLY like the sore-in-the-cunt cuntsorevaturd cummenters on these that them thar cumment pages right here!!! Power pigs are the same everywhere!

[Mickey Rat]

Columbia protestors demand to be allowed food and water by the instsitution they are protesting and hijacking real estate from.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/occupying-columbia-protesters-demand-global-intifada-free-food/

Apparently, the professor acting as spokesperson has the unlikely surname of “King-Slutzky”, and, of course is a Marxist in the Humanities who is “particularly interested in theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination.”

“So out comes this Mouth of Sauron this afternoon, emerging to address the media with the protesters’ key demands, which although poorly articulated are generally understood from the slogans shouted to include (1) immediate divestment by Columbia from Israel, (2) an end to the Israeli war in the Middle East, and (3) an end to the Israeli state in the Middle East. Ms. King-Slutzky has added a new one: (4) access to free meals and drinks while they wait for Nos. 1-3 to be addressed. Because darnit, they’re thirsty.”

“I commend the brief video to all as a memorable up-close experience of the caliber of minds we’re dealing with here:

REPORTER: Why should the university be obligated to provide food to people who’ve taken over a building?

KING-SLUTZKY: Uh, well first of all we’re saying that they are obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here.

REPORTER: But you mentioned that there was a request that food and water be brought in. Unless I misunderstan—

KING-SLUTZKY: To allow it to be brought in. Well, I guess it’s ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students. Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you?”

KING-SLUTZKY: If the answer is no, then you should allow basic—I mean, this is crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for, could people have a glass of water?

REPORTER: But they did put themselves, very deliberately, in that situation and that position, so it seems like you’re sort of saying we want to take over this building — now would you please bring us food and water?

KING-SLUTZKY: Nobody’s asking them to bring anything, we’re asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid.

OTHER REPORTER: They’re stopping the delivery of food?

KING-SLUTZKY: We’re looking for a commitment that they will not do it.

OTHER REPORTER: But they haven’t stopped it yet.

KING-SLUTZKY: Well, I don’t know to what extent it has been attempted, but we’re looking for a commitment.”

First things first — a round of applause to those reporters. The video is worth watching only so you can hear how hilariously neutral their tones are when incredulously asking obvious questions of King-Slutzky, as if they cannot believe they’re lucky enough to be interviewing anyone this stupid. (“This doesn’t normally happen to beat reporters like me,” their internal monologues are screaming. “I am living the dream.”)”

[VinniUSMC]

Let’s see how committed Columbia is. Every student should be arrested and expelled. Every non-student should be arrested.

Or, maybe a handful of them will start self-immolating and take the whole damned lot of Hamas-Nazi lovers with them.

[Moonrocks]

we’re asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid

They're actually, literally LARPing.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

I saw that last night. I was amazed. That was some incredibly low wattage thought on display.

[Don't look at me!]

Another example of why you can’t have chicks in charge.

[A Cynical Asshole]

Voluntarily put themselves in a bad situation and then insist to be shielded from any and all consequences of their actions? Demands to not be held accountable for their own poor choices? Yep, sounds about par for the course.

[mad.casual]

Look, they don't care who serves them the food or what they had to do to get it there, as long as their demands to be treated like real people and feel seen are met where they are at.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Remember this just a few weeks ago:

Pro-Palestinian protesters at Vanderbilt University called 911 on Wednesday over concerns for a protester's tampon during a campus sit-in in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The Vanderbilt Generation Action account on Instagram shared a story this week showing protesters calling 911, with one student heard saying "there is currently a female student who is being denied the right to change her tampon that has been in for multiple hours, which leads to an increased risk of toxic shock syndrome."

[A Cynical Asshole]

"Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you?”

*shrugs* Meh. Don't really care if they do.

[VinniUSMC]

Wrong place.

Add: Hamas are Terrorists. Hamas sympathizers are Nazis.

[Moonrocks]

Oi! U got a loicense for those soigns!?

[Fist of Etiquette]

This judge is inventing Limey freedom of speech and association out of whole cloth!