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How Support for Palestine Became a Hate Crime - A celebrated civil rights law is being used to target those opposing crimes against humanity—and ruining lives in the process.

JL;DR SUMMARY Mari Cohen's article addresses the contentious issue of how legal systems are handling acts of protest and the tension between pro-Palestinian activism and charges of antisemitism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ZionismHate CrimePro Palestinian ActivismFreedom Of SpeechLegal SystemDouble StandardPublic PressureChristopher HusaryProsecution Bias

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California, United States
"In Californias Contra Costa County, in the East Bay, a man named Christopher Husarythe child of Palestinian immigrants to the USwas arrested at a January 2024 ceasefire protest and charged with robbery and arson for allegedly grabbing and burning a counterprotesters Israeli flag."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Lawyers for the Brooklyn Museum defendants attribute the severity of the prosecutions approach in part to the Brooklyn DAs desire to appease a vocal pro-Israel constituency."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"In May 2024, a local rabbi and real estate developer (and, notably, a relative of the late right-wing extremist Meir Kahane) was arrested in Manhattan for assault after allegedly bumping protestors with his car outside the home of a Columbia University trustee."
New York City, New York, United States
"(Just as the California case was resolved, Husary was separately charged with a hate crime in New York City for allegedly vandalizing a subway train door with a red triangle and threatening a Jewish passenger who took photos of it; his New Yorkbased lawyer declined to comment in detail but said he planned to contest the hate crime charge in court.)"

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