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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018...onvicts-palestinian-poem-180503161402330.html

Dareen Tatour, who has denied the charges, was convicted by a Nazareth court on Thursday for a 2015 social media post of a video with her reading one of her poems, titled "Resist, my people, resist."
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Tatour was arrested in an Israeli police raid on October 11, 2015, and spent the next 16 months under house arrest, during which time she was barred from publishing her work and accessing the internet.
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Since then, more than 150 American literary figures, including nine Pulitzer Prize winners, have called on Israel to free Tatour, including Alice Walker, Naomi Klein, Natasha Trethewey and Jacqueline Woodson.
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"In essence what the court has done has buried the right of freedom of speech in its decision while we brought the court many many different poems of Jewish poets that have written through history, things that are harsher than what Dareen has written, and nobody even thought to criminalise their poems," said Tatour's lawyer Gaby Lasky.
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Israel has historically handed Palestinians lengthy prison sentences for minor offences.

Three years ago, Israel's Knesset approved a law that imposes up to 20 years in prison on people convicted of throwing rocks, despite condemnation from rights groups.

Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old who has had three of her family members killed in the past year, is facing eight months in jail after slapping Israeli soldiers who raided her home.

The incident took place shortly after her 15-year-old cousin suffered life-threatening injuries after he was shot in the face with a rubber bullet.
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"Only" "democracy" in the Middle East.
 
Coyote Starrk

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Non violent poetry?



THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE WALL AND MUSLIM BAN GUYS!!!



(This is so stupid. How do people defend this?)
 
Rangerx

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Suppression of arts and culture is another facet of the brutal war the Israeli government is waging against the Palestinians. Absolutely disgusting.
 
phanphare

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8 months in jail and 16 months of house arrest plus the years long headache of being arrested in 2015 and having to deal with this shit

for a poem

what the fuck
 
Richter1887

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I can't be shocked at this happening. This is normal for Palestinian people.

Fuck the Israeli government.
 
Kinthalis

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Waiting on the usual suspects to start defending this shit and for mods to start banning people for being "antisemetic".
 
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Need global BDS and we need it yesterday. The only people who can hold the Israeli government accountable are the Israelis themselves, and they need to be strong-armed into doing it by people of good conscience from around the world, apparently.
 

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Yeah that’s some apartheid bullshit.

Would it be correct to characterize Israel’s government as fascistic?

Gwenpoolshark said:
Embarrassed to be Jewish on days like this.
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Nothing to be embarrassed about. This is the Israeli government. They’re at fault and it is by no means a reflection on you or any other Jewish person who does not like the Israeli government’s actions.
 
Elegant Weapon

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I wonder if there will be as much outrage over this as the guy who was convicted for teaching the nazi salute to a dog as a joke
 
elyetis

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Israel is right to defend it's border from non-violent poetry like any country in the world would.

Also Hamas something.
 
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It's a stupid conviction.

Haaretz provides a bit more context:
Tatour was arrested at time when lone-wolf stabbing attacks on Israelis were practically a daily event. She is charged with publishing on "various publications that call for violent acts or terrorism" on Facebook and YouTube, and "for praising and identifying with acts of violence or terrorism."

A video clip that Tatour uploaded shows her reading the poem against the backdrop of masked people throwing rocks and firebombs at Israeli security forces. The indictment contains a translation of the poem into Hebrew and says that as of the charges being filed, it had accrued more than 200,000 views and several adulatory comments.
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The indictment against her includes a translation of the poem, which includes the lines: "I will not succumb to the 'peaceful solution' / Never lower my flags / Until I evict them from my land."
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They know this will be a cause célèbre, it was dumb and wrong to pursue charges in the first place.
 
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I for one am shocked. /s

American support for Isreal is shameful and history will look back at this moment in time with regret and ire the same way we look back at segregation in the US and apartheid in South Africa.
 
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Azuran

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They're actually saving this woman by imprisoning her instead of slaughtering her like her fellow Palestinians.
 
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dusteatingbug said:
Ethnic cleansing, militarism, murder of journalists, literal ghettos, and tacit allowance of extralegal racist industries. It's a fascist country.
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You forgot targeting children with snipers. Yeah...I don't know how you can't call them fascist at this point.
Aftervirtue said:
I for one am shocked. /s

American support for Isreal is shameful and history will look back at this moment in time with regret and ire the same way we look back at segregation in the US and apartheid in South Africa.
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If they manage to go completely through with it, there won't be anyone left to tell their side of the story. And for now it doesn't look like anyone will stop them. Ever.
 
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Gwenpoolshark said:
They do this in my name.
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I can't tell you how to feel, but you're no more at fault for Israel's atrocities by virtue of being Jewish than Muslims are for ISIS's shit (or atheists are for Stalin's or Mao's terrors).

There are Jewish groups both in Israel and outside of it (notably J-Street in the US) that work for social justice, human rights, and a just peace in Israel/Palestine.
 
Corronchilejano

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The poem in question, or at least a translation

Resist, My People, Resist Them
Resist, my people, resist them.

In Jerusalem, I dressed my wounds and breathed my sorrows

And carried the soul in my palm

For an Arab Palestine.

I will not succumb to the “peaceful solution,”

Never lower my flags

Until I evict them from my land.

I cast them aside for a coming time.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the settler’s robbery

And follow the caravan of martyrs.

Shred the disgraceful constitution

Which imposed degradation and humiliation

And deterred us from restoring justice.

They burned blameless children;

As for Hadil, they sniped her in public,

Killed her in broad daylight.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the colonialist’s onslaught.

Pay no mind to his agents among us

Who chain us with the peaceful illusion.

Do not fear doubtful tongues;

The truth in your heart is stronger,

As long as you resist in a land

That has lived through raids and victory.

So Ali called from his grave:

Resist, my rebellious people.

Write me as prose on the agarwood;

My remains have you as a response.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist, my people, resist them.
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