Algerian footballer Youcef Atal convicted in France over post on Gaza war
Algerian footballer Youcef Atal convicted in France over post on Gaza war
Atal gets eight-month suspended sentence for reposting video the 27-year-old said he did not fully watch before sharing.
After French football star Karim Benzema criticised “unjust bombings which spare no women or children” in a social media post about Israel’s assault on Gaza, France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin accused him – without evidence – of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood. A French senator also called on Benzema to be stripped of previous football awards as well as his French citizenship.
Don't kill women and children you say? Classic Muslim Brotherhood behaviour. Take his citizenship boys
61Taking issue with Israel's genocide is not the same as antisemitism. Anti-genocide ≠ antisemitism
44The problem is that saying Israel has no right to exist and that the whole country should be Palestine is antisemitism though. And especially in the pro-gaza-crowd that line is often crossed.
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Western freedom and democracy
24He explained to the court that he did not view the entirety of the video before sharing it to his twitter followers.
the video is 35 seconds long lmao
10Classic social media user
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Sounds like France needs another revolution.
9Broken article link, are these getting common in this community?
Edit : seems like aljazeera.net's been down for a while.
-1Link worked fine for me just now, 13mins after your post.
7Update : apparently an enemy of the nation has been blocking their domain for years where I live.
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I'm not gonna lie, this is kind of refreshing to read. I really enjoy seeing people be held accountable for their actions and punished with more than "write an apology." However, I still believe that the punishment should seek to reparate the damages, and he should be sentenced to some legitimate community service in the form of advocating for peace on social media and public appearances to put his celebrity to good use.
-15Meanwhile Israel is slaughtering tens of thousands civilians with Western blessing, support and weapons. And France is concerned of such a comment? Right.
27I think France, a country with millions of people, is capable of multitasking.
-4France is concerned of all comments about the war in Gaza. France is the European country with the largest Jewish and Muslim communities. It is trying to navigate this mess in order to keep civil peace in a very very tense context.
France is backing Israel because it is in dept with Jewish people over its collaboration during WW2 and the help it provided to the Nazis in the hunt of Jewish people.
France was attacked and is still threatened by Islamist terrorists (Charlie, Nice, Bataclan,...). Hamas is more or less aligned on IS when it comes to Western countries, that is why it is considered a terrorist organization.
But France is also in dept with Arabs and Muslims. It colonized North Africa for 130 years, led a bloody war in Algeria with lots of war crimes against civilians. It hosts millions of citizen of Arabic and Muslim ancestry and the government cannot pretend their opinionidoesn't matter (lots of people who are neither Arabs nor Muslim also want Israel to stop bombing Gaza). It has been funding schools and hospitals in Gaza, is dropping food and medicine by air for Gaza's population. It does not provide any military assistance toI Israel which is not a member of NATO.
So yes, France needs to regulate public speech to avoid civil unrest and violence at home, while working toward a lasting peace between Palestine and Israel.
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