so i’ve seen several things saying that desecration of the “israeli” flag is now illegal in the US because it’s racial discrimination or a hate crime or something? is that true or are news articles just twisting words to make it seem that way? this is crazy lmao
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But no yeah, as of 3 days ago (?) pretty sure federal judge Trevor n McFadden declared that the Israeli flag is not a political symbol but a racial one. So they’ve made burning one a hate crime, and it’s not protected under our rights to protest in the same way our right to burn an American flag is protected as a form of protest.

fr zionists are so stupid. how would they even know if someone is boycotting😂

100% not true hahahha where do you get your news that told you this?

just the first few that come up when i search

I see, I don’t see if phrased anywhere that it’ll illegal. Very interesting though

I’m not very caught up on what’s going on in the world right now. I roll my eyes at every war because I’m against involvement in war. But for it being illegal in the US seems far fetched. Of course I can understand it being frowned upon and not right

oh so this is recent as FUCK. Goddangit Trump appointees are such morons.

yeah it doesn’t specifically say “burning an israeli flag is illegal” but it does say that it’s “racial discrimination” and that the flag is a symbol of “the jewish race” and racial hate crimes are federally illegal so that would definitely imply that it’s illegal, right?

do i know who put what in place? making hate crimes illegal? i don’t know but im pretty sure they’ve been illegal for a while….
but to be clear, there is no “israel - palestine war”. “israel” is committing an active genocide against palestinians. you say “im not very caught up on what’s going on in the world right now” which is very obvious. it is VERY clearly a genocide if you’re paying any attention at all.

Haha lmfao I’ll stay boycotting

I don’t see this being reported on by Associated Press or Reuters.

Why would you comment a condescending “100% not true hahahha….”
While literally in your words are “not very caught up on what’s going on in the world right now.” Clearly. Don’t comment on stuff you know absolutely nothing about.

Is this case related to that lawyer who was charged with arson? He burned a flag during protests at Columbia last year…and now they’re interpreting vandalism as a hate crime? Is that right? Very scary if true.

this one is about a jewish woman who had the israeli flag tied around her neck like a cape at a protest and another woman pulled on it or it got caught on her or something and it pulled around her neck a little and then the other woman was arrested for assault and the jewish woman claimed it was because she’s jewish and therefore it’s a hate crime

😞 This is fucking terrible.

But to answer the original question, no it is not illegal to burn or desecrate the Israeli flag. I still don’t see where anyone has been convicted of a hate crime—but this administration is definitely trying to see if the court goes for it.

A state and a race are not the same thing. Intertwining the Jewish people with the state of Israel is a mistake. The state is the government making terrible choices, it’s nothing to do with religion and it shouldn’t cloak itself in that for protection.