APPALLING‼️WE ARE TURNING INTO RUSSIA‼️🔥😡 In early September, a jury trial will begin in North Texas for a 32-year-old activist named Raunaq Alam. He is accused of spray-painting “Fuck Israel” on the wall of a non-denominational church in Euless, a small city roughly 20 minutes from Fort Worth.
✡️ bombing babies is somehow not a hate crime.... cultists are disgusting
Exactly ‼️ The fascists always stick together. Fuck Israel. Fuck the US. Fuck all fascists everywhere 🖕
But it’s not the graffiti accusation that’s most troubling for Alam and his attorney. Using a hate-crimes statute, Tarrant county has enhanced its criminal mischief charges against Alam so he now faces btn 2&10 yrs in prison. Th county’s argument – & the charges – are the same for 2 other activists
“The notion of a hate crime hs bn fitted ovr these very expansive definitions of antisemitism,” Nair sd. “Now, hate-crime laws cn be used to fulfill a rather different agenda, that’s not even entirely a domestic agenda. Even thinking of critiquing what’s happening in Gaza is considered antisemitic.”