An American activist was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the town of Beita, in the occupied West Bank, during a weekly protest against settlement expansion, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The report said the 26-year-old woman was shot in the head, according to the report.

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      2 months ago

      Article doesn’t even mention his death lol. Yea, he was a prisoner, for committing a crime. Seems like a case of FAFO to me. And certainly no big loss.

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          On May 1, 2023, Lira was arrested for violating Article 436-2 of Ukraine’s criminal code, which prohibits justification of Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country.[8][38]

          Also it’s on the wiki

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            To sum up, a US citizen was arrested for exercising his free speech, then thrown into prison where he was tortured and denied medical care, dying as a result. If that happened in Russia you’d be screeching about fascism right now, but since it happened to somebody you dislike, and was done by the fascists you support, you see no problem.

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          I’m not up on Ukrainian law, and really, really don’t care about this dude. Any point you have is wasted on me.

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            It’s interesting that you apparently support the Ukrainian censorship of freedom of expression applied to US citizens. Very revealing.

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                Nice straw man you got there. Nowhere did I say that American law applies to foreign countries. What was actually said that the law he broke in Ukraine was one restricting freedom of expression. A supposed value that US is helping Ukraine defend. Not only that, but apparently US regime didn’t really care about the fact that their puppet regime in Ukraine arrested and tortured a US citizen for exercising his speech, the core value that US regime purports to be fighting for. Quite telling that you’re aggressively working not to understand what’s happening here.