Oh boy, time to learn about the regional/more localized flags!
edit: for vexillological purposes, of course.
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In backwards nazi america: Burning a quran is free speech. Burning Gaza and its inhabitants to the ground is self defense. But burning the symbol of a genocidal fascist death cult is a "hate crime".
Death to america Death to israel
So the Israeli flag is more important than the US flag since you can burn the US flag. Let that sink in to all the MAGA folks.
Isn’t burning a flag to proper way to dispose of it without technically desecrating it? I swear i read that somewhere.
You're at least partially correct. Ceremonial Burning is the proper way to dispose of the US flag source. They do specify it should be done in a respectful manner, but a disrespectful burning is protected political speech (until now, I guess).
I don’t trust them to come to the correct conclusion with that information.
Nazi flag is holy in AmeriKKKa
I had no desire to burn an Israel flag before today.
So tired of partisan judges WTF.
Time to rekindle the hexbear struggle session:
Can't have a struggle if the mods just ban dissenters who make good points and call them out. Real yikes stuff going on in your thread over there defending this kind of logic.
Oh good lord its a sticky...
Looks like its near unanimous support for changing the emoji even the mods. AFAIK the only person banned was Z_poster and the mods just hate Z regardless if they're extremely correct on this issue. Hell, I've got Z blocked years ago for being a toxic debate bro.
From Palestinian academic Afif Aqrabawi just the other day.
"The Star of David is no longer a religious emblem; it is the geometry of pain, the symbol of massacre and the face of evil.
Palestinians meet it on warplanes, checkpoints, tanks, and uniforms that invade their homes and drag away their children. For decades it has meant occupation, humiliation, starvation, death — the corporate logo of apartheid.
Every incinerated body, every bombed hospital, every mass grave is signed with that star. It is policy, a brand of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
The Star of David is a hate symbol that performs the work of hate: it terrifies, injures, dehumanizes, and proclaims our suffering as divine order. It is not neutral. It is not redeemable. It has been weaponized too completely, for too long. What remains is only the insignia of a terrorist organization that slaughters children under its banner — the flag planted in Gaza’s ruins, the badge of a system built on our extermination.
The Star of David is the mark of my oppressor; to claim it is to be a child-killer and my enemy."
Zionist states of Amerikkka 
Jewish cabal conspiracy believers eating good with this one. How else do you explain it(beyond the actual reality that americans being against america does not pose any threat to america thus it is allowed; but if enough americans are anti-israel, the weapons might get cut off and it's over for the entity)? Sometimes it seems like the project of zionism is exclusively created to prove antisemites correct.
conflating antisemitism with antizionism is their only strategy to justify the genocide so they will try everything in their power to make it seem so.
"Ohhhh fuck, why didn't I think of that???"
Average Zionist authority reading Nazi conspiracy theories.
Judge Trevor N. McFadden ruled that ‘desecrating’ the Israeli flag is not political expression but racial discrimination.
No he didn't
The decision means burning, tearing, or grabbing the Israeli flag can be prosecuted as hate conduct.
No it doesn't.
Whoever wrote this does not even slightly understand the issues in this case.
“Purposefully yanking on an Israeli flag tied around a Jewish person’s neck is direct evidence of racial discrimination,” McFadden wrote. He described the Star of David on the flag as a symbol of “the Jewish race.” He further compared attacking the flag to using a racial slur against Black people."
Kind of seems like he did.
Purposefully yanking on an Israeli flag tied around a Jewish person’s neck.
burning, tearing, or grabbing the Israeli flag
Do these phrases describe identical conduct?
I'm confused, a second ago you said he didn't say that. You said he didn't say burning tearing or grabbing Israeli flag is hate and not speech. Is that not still the case? Because the case was never about incidental contact. If I want to burn and Israeli flag I should be able to because I'm a fucking American and I have the freedom to burn any goddamn flag I want. Especially that of a fascist Nation. So we need to decide what your contention is here. Because if he did not say that I don't know why you're quoting it.
Secondly the idea that the flag was yanked because the woman suing says her flag was grabbed and yanked does that mean it was. That was never proven because the state decided they didn't have enough evidence and dropped it. The fact that the judge doesn't care about truth is not surprising though. Frankly I'm disinclined to believe her.
You said he didn’t say burning tearing or grabbing Israeli flag is hate and not speech.
Because he didn't. I quoted the part of the article where it claimed the judge said something he didn't to point out that the judge did not, in fact, say that. I don't understand how you could possibly find that confusing. You quoted another part of the article that said something different than that part that I quoted like it was talking about the same thing. It wasn't. Which is why I put those two parts right next to each other asked the question. Obviously those two phrases don't mean the same thing and if you can't pretend that they do, then the entire conclusion of the article falls apart and everyone in this thread is just shouting at the wind. Which is why you haven't answered it.
Because the case was never about incidental contact.
Very good, gold star for you. The case is not about incidental contact. It's about a battery. Specifically, it's about a religious and ethnic minority individual literally being battered with their own religious iconography. The response of this article and to it of "muh freeze peach" is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen on here. You all need to trade in your red flags for some red caps because you're doing the exact same stupid shit Trumpers do every day.
If I want to burn and Israeli flag I should be able to because I’m a fucking American and I have the freedom to burn any goddamn flag I want.
Good news then friend, you still can if you still want to, because again the ruling under discussion here doesn't have any fucking thing to do with that.