Simen Svenheim

Views mine.

[Simen Svenheim @SimenS]

Dette er vanskeligst se på. Man kan ikke forakte disse politifolkene nok.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'His murderer was afforded decency. He was believed'

Henry Nowak's father says the 'contrast' in the police's treatment of his son and his murderer is 'unbearable' in a statement after Nowak's killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

“police arrest man who is bleeding to death because the stabber claimed he was racist”

its literally impossible to satirize the UK anymore. even the most extreme, hamfisted memes are just real things that actually happen now

[Simen Svenheim @SimenS]

@NetrunnerZero @DavidRe08496043 @CyclingKent101 @DangleSpanners Drivers hold me up pretty much every walk I take. How often do you ask pedestrians if they mind waiting while you drive your car? You don’t?

[Simen Svenheim @SimenS]

@Anguscurran @BradfemlyWalsh It has the same origin from French «brave» and Italian «bravo»

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Ha llegado la hora de que la UE rompa su Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel.

No tenemos nada contra el pueblo de Israel, al contrario. Pero un Gobierno que viola el derecho internacional y, por tanto, los principios y valores de la UE no puede ser nuestro socio.

NO A LA GUERRA.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

France is on the eve of voting one of the most shameful laws in its history: it would effectively outlaw criticism of Israel and criminalize any speech seen as even remotely sympathetic to whoever the French government chooses to designate a "terrorist group."

In effect this law would turn France's foreign policy into unchallengeable dogma backed by prison time. You could literally be sent for 5 years in prison if you, for instance, call what France says are "terrorists" a "resistance group."

Think for instance Nelson Mandela during the apartheid (the ANC was on every Western terrorist list) or, heck, France's own Résistance against Nazi Germany - designated as "terrorists" by the Vichy regime and the Nazi occupation.

It's frankly absolutely insane.

The new law is called "loi Yadan" after its author Caroline Yadan, a MP who represents French expatriates living in Israel. The U.S. has congressmen paid by AIPAC: France has cut out the middleman entirely, we have MPs whose constituency is literally in Israel.

The law has already passed committee and heads to a full parliamentary vote on April 16th - 3 days from now - under a very unusual fast-track procedure. Seven of eleven parliamentary groups have said they'll vote yes and the law is expected to pass.

What does the law say? Let me quote from it directly (full text here: https://t.co/m03R4z0gX6):

1) Article 1 introduces the concept of "implicit" provocation to terrorism and punishes it with five years imprisonment and a fine of €75,000

That's the one I was speaking about. Under this provision, describing anyone France designates as terrorist as a "resistance movement" - the way France describes its own Résistance against Nazi occupation - could effectively become a crime.

The key concept is what does "implicit provocation to terrorism" mean? Nobody knows. And that's the point. It means whatever a prosecutor wants it to mean: a perfectly good case could be made that, for instance, quoting international law on the right of occupied peoples to resist with respect to Hamas is, in fact, "implicit provocation to terrorism."

France's most famous anti-terrorism judge, Marc Trévidic, says he has never seen anything like it in his entire career (https://t.co/CytQnuK3hS): "Implicit provocation to terrorism: do you realize what that means? Becoming a censor of other people's thoughts, trying to guess what a person really meant."

2) The same article also expands the terrorism apology offense to include "minimizing or trivializing acts of terrorism in an outrageous manner."

This is even crazier: until now, "apology of terrorism" meant actually expressing a favorable judgment of "terrorist acts" (which is already insane because, as we all know, one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter).

Well, under this new provision, a judge could decide that providing context, explaining root causes, or insufficiently condemning an act amounts to "trivializing" terrorism - and that would now be punishable with 5 years in prison.

So, for instance, a history teacher explaining the origins of Hamas or Hezbollah is providing context - but a prosecutor could argue that contextualization is trivialization. The same reasoning could apply to a journalist, a researcher, or anyone on social media who says "yes, it was terrible, but here's why it happened." The "but" becomes a crime, as it is trivialization.

3) Article 4 expands Holocaust denial law

Under current French law, denying the Holocaust is already a crime. This provision extends that crime by specifying that contestation of crimes against humanity now includes, "whatever its formulation, a negation, minimization, or outrageous trivialization" of those crimes.

Again with "outrageous trivialization"! In this instance the very authors of the text - Caroline Yadan and her colleagues - explain their reasoning explicitly in the law's preamble (https://t.co/rIiYQbbk23): "Comparing the State of Israel to the Nazi regime would thereby be punishable as an outrageous trivialization of the Shoah."

So while the provision is written in general terms, its architects are openly saying what it's for: making it a crime to draw any parallel between Israel's actions and those of the Nazis.

4) Article 2 creates a brand new crime: calling for the destruction of a state.

The law adds to an existing 1881 press law a provision punishing anyone who "publicly, in disregard of the right of peoples to self-determination and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, calls for the destruction of a state recognized by the French Republic." Five years imprisonment, €75,000 fine.

The qualifiers about self-determination and the UN Charter are meant to sound reassuring. But what does "destruction" mean? In practice, if you advocate for a one-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live as equals, you are de-facto calling for the "destruction" of the state of Israel. Well, that would now be punishable by 5 years in prison 🤷

There you go. Absolutely insane: if this new law passes, and it unfortunately very much looks like it will, France - the country that gave the world the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the country whose national identity is built on the Résistance - will have made it illegal to use the word 'resistance' about anyone the government doesn't like. Jean Moulin would be prosecuted. De Gaulle would be prosecuted.

The only people who wouldn't be prosecuted are those who stay silent. Which, of course, is the whole point.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The UK governments guide to terrorism:

Left: Terrorism

Right: Not Terrorism

[이재��� @Jaemyung_Lee]

<끊임없는 반인권적 반국제법적 행동으로 고통받고 힘들어하는 전 세계인들의 지적을 한번쯤은 되돌아볼 만도 한데 실망입니다.

내가 아프면 타인도 그만큼 아픕니다.

나의 필요 때문에 누군가 고통받으면 미안한 것이 인지상정입니다.

아닌 밤중에 홍두깨라고 아무 잘못없는 우리 국민들께서 뜬금없이 겪고 있는 이 엄청난 고통과 국가적 어려움을 지켜보는 마음이 매우 불편합니다.

보편적 인권과 대한민국의 국익을 위해 할 수 있는 일을 더 열심히 찾아봐야겠습니다.>

이스라엘, ‘전시 살해=유대인 학살’ 李대통령 발언에 “용납 못해” https://t.co/R9OOeMDSr3

[Embassy of Spain UK @EmbSpainUK]

Netanyahu has launched a severe attack on Lebanon.His disregard for human life &amp; intrl law is unacceptable.

Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire.

The international community should condemn this.

The EU should suspend its Association Agreement with Israel.

No impunity.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The @BBCNews has turned into an active &amp; unrelenting propagandist for Netanyahu’s expansionist wars for a Greater Israel. They've abandoned any pretence of analysis &amp; just read out IDF press releases as if they are objective truth. They've turned into Orwell’s Ministry of Truth

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

"Keep Control" 😑

Russia "occupation" of Ukraine.

Israel "keeps control" of Lebanon.

The language of propaganda.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

1944 Hitler introducing a "gas chamber".... (Topic forbidden to question/debate)...

Nahhh this is 2026 from a European supremacist representing Israel, a sick society.

This is Ben Gvir introducing execution chamber for Palestinian people, the same owners of the land colonisers stole.
Palestinian prisoners used to be tortured and sodomized, now they will be executed as well.

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

Keir Starmer's moral universe : he was quick to oppose the ban on the notoriously violent Maccabi Tel Aviv Football fans but is unable to articulate a response after Israel imposes a death penalty that only applies to Palestinian prisoners .

[Fiona Lali @fiona_lali]

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE.

YOU CHEERLEADED THIS GENOCIDE.

YOU ARE COMPLICIT!

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Before today, accusing the Israeli government of drinking to the death of Palestinians would have been considered antisemitic blood libel and gotten you banned from every major social media site

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

“We must get the left to stop caring about dead Muslims”

— Person Who Helped Kill One Million Muslims

[Zarrar Khuhro @ZarrarKhuhro]

Cant have a genocide without Germany after all

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

He either forgot how many children they killed ( and, worse, tortured) or has been so brainwashed by his ethnoobsession that the "other", kids or no kids, does not exist.

[Khaled Elgindy @elgindy_]

Not many militaries would broadcast their own war crimes. But then Israel enjoys near total impunity thanks to the US.