literature.cafe

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This is a general special interest lemmy instance focusing on lovers of all things pertaining to reading and writing and all of the people that enjoy it as well as fandoms and niches that exist within reading circles. We federate with other instances, with our local communities being focused primarily on the above.

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A familiar UI - old.literature.cafe

Photon - ph.literature.cafe

Tesseract (photon fork with more multimedia focused features) - t.literature.cafe

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The Outrageous Case of a Journalist Charged With a Hate Crime for Recording a Gaza Protest Action (theintercept.com)
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The Outrageous Case of a Journalist Charged With a Hate Crime for Recording a Gaza Protest Action (theintercept.com)
 
 

IN AN EGREGIOUS violation of press freedoms and First Amendment-protected activity, a New York City video journalist was arrested on felony hate crime charges Tuesday for allegedly being present during and documenting a pro-Palestine protest action.

According to the charges, Sam Seligson, a credentialed independent videographer, filmed a small group of people last June graffitiing the homes of the Brooklyn Museum’s director, president, and two other museum officials with pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist slogans.

Spray-painted messages and banners hung on the properties accused the museum leaders of complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. A week prior, the museum had called in police to mass arrest protesters who had assembled inside its building to demand divestment from holdings related to Israel’s war.

No one is suggesting that graffitiing private property is legal under New York law. Seligson is not accused of spray-painting or vandalizing any property. He is nonetheless facing charges for criminal mischief enhanced as a felony hate crime; one other person alleged to have driven participants to and from the executives’ homes is also facing criminal mischief hate crime charges. The police are still looking for four alleged participants.

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