Posted on 11/14/2023 7:21:13 AM PST by SJackson
In one of those pro-Hamas demonstrations held recently in London, one girl’s message on a raised placard stood out. The sign showed a stick-figure human dropping a Star of David, representing the Jewish people, in a garbage can — in other words, on the ash-heap of history. And no one seems to think she can be punished for this “hate crime.” More on this unmistakable expression of an annihilationist antisemitism can be found here: “London student calls for world clean of Jews in pro-Palestinian protest,” by Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2023:
A pro-Palestinian protester is under fire for holding a sign in a London demonstration on Saturday calling for cleaning the world of Jews.
Meet Mehak Qureshi, internship designer in K2X Tech and Part-time Barista in Costa Coffee in London whose goal is to clean the world of Jews,” a pro-Israel activist shared on X, relating to the young British demonstrator who held a sign with the wording: Keep the world clean [of Jews], while instead of writing Jews, she drew blue a Star of David.
Shai Glick, CEO of Btsalmo, a conservative Israeli lobby organization, sent an email to Goldsmiths College at the University of London, where Qureshi studies. He wrote, “A student of yours, Mehak Qureshi has been protesting in the streets with a shocking antisemitic sign that reads: Keep the world clean [of Jews]. This is a sign that simply permits and authorizes the murder of Jews. A sign that supports genocide.”
He asked, “How is it possible for such a person to study at your school?”
An additional X user tagged the London’s Metropolitan Police Service and tweeted “This charming woman was at the pro-Palestine demo last week carrying this sign. The sign calls for the genocide of Jews. Her name is Mehak Qureshi, a student at Goldsmiths. She should be arrested for incitement of racial hatred.”
Earlier this week, The Jerusalem Post reported that the UK Metropolitan Police made 11 arrests in London concerning the pro-Palestine demonstration as of Saturday evening. Although they have since announced details of arrests that may or may not have been included in the initial count.
It appears that Mahek Qureshi was not among those arrested.
Here’s what I would like to know. There is a category of offenses known as “hate crimes.” When you hold high a sign that conveys clearly the following message — that we should work to ensure the annihilation not only of Israelis, but of all Jews in the world — that surely constitutes a hate crime. And it is also an act of psychological terrorism, for this is a real threat, intended to menace the world’s Jews, by someone who is not a lonely crank, whose threats can be laughed off, but a participant in a vast demonstration filled with supporters of the terror group Hamas. Many will assume that Mehak Qureshi’s sign expresses not just her desires, but those as well of her fellow demonstrators, to rid the world of Jews. It certainly was meant to fill Jews with anxiety, that is, to terrorize them.
Would the Metropolitan Police have waited to arrest anyone holding up signs calling on the government to “deport black criminals back to Africa” or “keep Muslims out of Manchester”? Of course not. These would be understood at once to be “hate crimes.” But the police have so far not arrested Mahek Qureshi, who calls not only for the destruction of Israel and its replacement by a twenty-third Arab state by chanting “from the river to the sea/Palestine will soon be free,” but makes clear she believes Jews should be removed not just from what is now Israel, but from everywhere in the world. And there is only way to do that, she and her sympathizers understand — that is, by killing them.
Will the police do anything about Mahek Qureshi? Will she receive a stiff fine? Or a prison sentence? Let’s see if the Metropolitan Police are willing to bring “hate crime” charges against someone who publicly calls for the genocide of the Jews.
BTTT
Naaah. It’s a common depraved impulse. Those that allow it to take them over end badly one way or the other. Her funeral.
Precedents have consequences.
The British police won’t do squat to her. They looked away while hundreds of young British girls were raped and sold into virtual slavery for a decade. They’re worse than useless.
They’re complicit.
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First amendment? Nah, it’s the u.k. so likely shell get some award or something. Not sure the u.k. has a good history with Isreal .
🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱👍
Yup, yup, yup.. Islam religion of peace and they will kill to prove it.
Muslims in the West calling Jews in the Middle East colonizers would be pretty funny if it wasn’t so rage inducing
“Back the Blue.”
Cops are government employees. They gleefully do what the government orders them to do.
I think her “beauty” routine needs to include an ash shampoo.
Never found anything in history the Muslims have a good record to stand on.
Elect Trump as President and let him pull us out of the 5Eyes security pact with our new/old enemies: UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
They are no longer allies nor trustworthy.
Yep.
It’s similar to how I don’t give a damn about some freak in chicks sports.
You help destroy my military, corporations, societal norms, sports, etc., but now I should stand up?
Women and minorities have been destroying the West, reap it.
Concur.
There’s an infamous political cartoon about this, but I’d get banned.
When you can be arrested for making posts online “deemed transphobic” or calling a police woman “you look like my lesbian grandma” (close at least), etc., having these “hate speech” laws on the books, how can this NOT be an arrestable offense?
I don’t agree with doing that...free speech and all, although this is at least a display showing the desire for genocide. But when you have these laws, you’d better apply them evenly. We know they won’t, although that is not going to go unnoticed - clearly there’s duplicity by the UK police and justice system.
London is a goner, fuhgedaboudit.
She is one of the “more equal” class. Nothing will happen to her. However, critics of her, her religion or her statements may be subject to arrest for hate crimes.
Hate crime laws were created so as to enable the politicians to arrest anyone at all any time for any reason.
Well, don’t be too sure:
“Separately, counter-terrorism police said they had arrested a 22-year-old woman from Brighton on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation, namely Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Hamas), under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
She was investigated following a speech she made at a protest on Sunday.”
Rishi Sunak has apparently ordered a crackdown on anti-Semitic speech.
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