A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement

"The arrest, she was informed, was for a peaceful sit-in she had attended at the Toronto office of Awz Ventures three months earlier, in January.

Suzanne is not the protester’s real name, and The Breach has agreed to keep her anonymous for fear of professional retribution.

Awz, an investment fund led by former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is behind a facial recognition tech being used by the Israeli military to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza."…

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If police need to criminalize waving Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine flags due to the connection to a foreign violent military wing, we would need to do the same with Confederate and Trump flags for similar reasons. And I’m saying this because they shouldn’t criminalize either.

    Big waste of Toronto taxpayer money.