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

[u/One-Washer]

Please look at the link inside article for the speech in question. I am unable to download it, but it is all there.

[u/Vincentkk]

According to MET Police, he was on “suspicion of showing support for a proscribed organisation.”, which he did, verbally, in his speech by showing support for Hamas and Hezbollah. (Please check the link to the news where there’s a short video of what he said during the speech)

However, I’m not standing on MET Police’s side either, because whether police should arrest people showing VERBAL support of a proscribed organization is still a debatable topic.

Also, standing on the opposite side of Israeli government doesn’t mean you have to stand with Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

The world is not black and white. We are just comparing whichever is darker.

[u/[deleted] → u/Vincentkk]

I watched the video of his speech and others. Can you quote the parts that could be considered "showing support for a proscribed organisation"? Because I couldn't find anything. 

[u/Songmorning → u/[deleted]]

He did say "Israel can't beat Hamas, Hezbollah, or the united resistance", which could be construed as him showing support for Hamas and lumping it together with the resistance. I don't know if that was his intention. Maybe he could have worded it differently, and it definitely wasn't just cause for being arrested.

I do know that the Palestinian people from Gaza that I've talked to don't like Hamas and say it's just looking out for its own interests and power as a group and not protecting them from Israel. But they don't hate Hamas as much as they hate Israel, since Israel is the one actively massacring them.

[u/[deleted] → u/Songmorning]

Exactly. There was no real moral or legal justification. It's just state intimidation. Seems to be happening quite a bit at the moment.