Exclusive: Prof Haim Bresheeth’s anti-genocide speech before he was arrested for ‘terrorism’

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[u/KingApologist]

Rounding up the dissenting academics and throwing them in prison is not generally something that the good guys of history do.

[u/ttot54540]

So upsetting! I hope pro bono lawyers help him ou!

[u/AlwaysWrongMate → u/ttot54540]

This is the U.K., he’s entitled to a free solicitor.

[u/BRCityzen → u/AlwaysWrongMate]

In a kangaroo court.

[u/EmmaGinaer]

Freedome of speech or opinion is what nowadays? An old myth?

[u/EmmaGinaer → u/[deleted]]

True.

[u/One-Washer → u/EmmaGinaer]

I think UK doesn't have free speech rights. This wouldn't fly in America, but they would call it terrorism or antisemitism instead and go on a smear campaign to harass whoever made the speech

[u/touslesmatins → u/One-Washer]

This would absolutely fly in America. Our so-called freedoms stop at Palestinian solidarity

[u/RuleJealous]

Being anti genocide is now classed as terrorism in the UK, shameful times.

[u/One-Washer]

Professor Haim Bresheeth was arrested Friday for his speech at a demo. This article sums everything up. His speech he did before the arrest is the last link, which is also in the same article. He was released Saturday, but remains under investigation:

• https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/03/exclusive-prof-haim-bresheeths-anti-genocide-speech-before-he-was-arrested-for-terrorism/#comments
• https://videopress.com/embed/f268rq70

He describes himself:

I would like to tell you about my background, in order to support my request. I am an academic, author and filmmaker, an ex-Israeli Jew who has been active for over five decades as a socialist, anti-Zionist and anti-racist activist. My parents were Polish Jews, survivors of Auschwitz and other camps. They ended forced onto death marches to the Third Reich after the Auschwitz camp was vacated by the SS in Mid-January 1945. My mother was freed by the British forces in Bergen-Belsen, and my father was freed by the US forces in Mauthausen. I was born in a Displaced Persons Camp in Italy, and arrived in Israel as a baby, during June 1948, as no European country would then accept Holocaust survivors.

I served in the Israeli Army (IDF) as a junior infantry officer, and took part in two wars, in 1967 and 1973, after which I turned into a committed pacifist. I came to study in Britain in 1972, and a short while afterwards I have learnt much about Zionism which I did not while in Israel, thus becoming an ardent supporter of Palestinian rights, and an anti-Zionist activist. I was an active supporter of the Anti-Apartheid Movement as a Labour member in the 1970s and acted against racist organisations throughout my life. My films, books and articles reflect the same political views outlined here; these include a popular book on the Holocaust (Introduction to the Holocaust, with Stuart Hood, 1994, 2001 2014), among others, a BBC documentary film (State of Danger, with Jenny Morgan, BBC2, March 1988) about the first Intifada, and a forthcoming volume on the Israeli Army (An Army Like No Other, May 2020) . I have re-joined the Labour Party after decades, when Jeremy Corbyn was elected to the leadership, as I regained hope in promoting a progressive agenda for the party, after years of Blairism.

Source: https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/haim-bresheeth-asks-to-be-refered-to-the-compliance-unit-for-antisemitism/

[u/dwaynebathtub]

Terrorist? He isn't even a child scavenging for moldy rice under a racist apartheid regime!

[u/4mystuff]

Nothing but intimidation. If you're in doubt about whom these police states serve, look no further. A colonialist has-been state is out to protect a colonialist failing state. This has nothing to do with protecting Jews, Brits, or others. simply enabling a police state to extract from citizens. Shameful. Shameful.

Another reason why we must all support Palestine. They come for Palestinians today, they will come for me tomorrow and you the day after.

[u/BlinThePannKek]

History will remember the actions and the names of those scoundrels in power and those who served them. Shame on the government.

[u/Monsur_Ausuhnom]

On such an idiotic and stupid timeline.

[u/BRCityzen]

"European values" on display right there, in Keir Stormer's UK.