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Swiss court: Ban on anti-Israel signs violates free speech
Daniel Bettini
Published: 13.04.11, 10:41
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31. Palestine.
Hugo ,   Italy   (04.13.11)
It is high time that the Europeans start speaking up for the Palestinians. They are been massacred every day by these Israelis who are nothing but Ashkenaze Eastern European descendants of converted Jews and can claim NO RIGHTS to the land of Ancient Palestine. The real semitic Jews are sephardic and most of them live in Rome and have so for the past 2000 years. These Ashkenaze Jews should go back to their homelands in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia etc or even go to Birobidzhan that is an autonomous Jewish region in Russia that Stalin gave to the Jews in 1939.
32. Jewish PR in Israel?,you must be kidding
jo   (04.13.11)
It doesn't surprise me one bit, The train services did not stop for a minute during their bonanza collaboration with the Nazis -- direct to the ovens. Having a bunch of killers engaging in their " god given " rights of freedom of speech on a Swiss train, is quite normal for this small and peaceful country. So if I called Micheline Anne-Marie calmy-Rey a piece of shit in a public place, would be fine, as long that it does not endanger the public, while my freedom of speech is guaranteed. Whinning is very Jewish. The fight fire with fire is anti-Jewish and connot be applied in this State. Piece by piece, by piece, by piece without firing a shot.
33. Counterattack with posters - 5000 years of Jewish History
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (04.13.11)
Counterattack with posters - 5000 years of Jewish History - displaying historical Jewish sites and artifacts in the Swiss trains and railroad stations.
34. Hugo from Italy #31
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (04.13.11)
I am a real Sephardic Jew and I don't live in Italy. In fact my grand parents who lived in the Island of Rhodes while Italy was governing the Island were persecuted by Mussolini's governor Del Vechio therefore moved to Turkey which saved their lives. Please read a little bit about your history and find out about the racial laws that Mussolini passed against Jews and the officers who burned themselves in protest of it. Italy was no heaven for Jews during the war.
35. Miranda # 17 - I am an American
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (04.13.11)
I live in NY but I travel a lot for business as a consultant. I have sen many adds to attract tourists to Israel (The COME TO ISRAEL campaign) but I never saw one that shows Arabs as terrorists. If you have seen an ad of that king please give specific example. Modern Israel is established on the land where Jews were originated but their land was stolen by them. Jews lived in these lands for millenniums and even after many moved out a number of Jewish population always stayed not only in the Tel Aviv area but also in the West Bank such as Hebron.
36. All of you Swiss bashers ,...
split ,   US   (04.13.11)
This should make you feel better ;) ,... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3521304,00.html Get a life ,...
37. EASY TO HANDLE
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (04.13.11)
We all know this is propaganda with no basis in truth. So Israel just needs put up their posters that refute the nonsense. One way would be put the many quotes that exist, from the Arab leaders themselves. There are plenty of them that deny Palestinians exist. That Palestine was a Zionist invention/Peel Commission, That Palestinians are just Arabs no different than any other Arabs, That they are just Syrians. Frankly there are plenty to choose from. Plus it's the truth and can be researched. So basically you fight the lies with the truth. Israel has never taken this part of their defense seriously enough, those days are gone. Naturally you not gonna change the mind of the antisemitic people. But for people of good will, they will side with Israel once they realize the Arabs are manipulating the information and just lying.. .
38. Signs may not be against the law...
William ,   Israel   (04.13.11)
but they are untruthful and present a libel accusation, which IS against the law in Switzerland. The signs must come down unless the Swiss court can prove the truthfulness of the statements by delving into years of historical documents.
39. These signs are more illegal...
William ,   Israel   (04.13.11)
than the minarets that they banned last year.
40. #36 - actually, it just underscores Swiss duplicity
William ,   Israel   (04.13.11)
I wonder what will come of the Swiss' violation of both UN and EU sanctions on Iran.
41. #31 - straight from the book of Arab propaganda
William ,   Israel   (04.13.11)
Let's see, where to start.. 1) Ashkenazi Jews are NOT Kazar converts. This was already proven through an extensive DNA study which tied them back to the Middle East. 2) Most of the Sephardic Jews are in Israel now, mostly because they were ethnically cleansed from Arab lands for no other reason than racism. Funny how some of them are in Rome. I wonder why. Probably because Romans ethnically cleansed them from their homeland, pillaged their temple, and slaughtered thousands of them. 3) "palestinians" massacred? First - those who carry a weapon are legitimate targets per Intl Law, second - "massacre" is more like what's going on in Libya and Syria. 4) Jews have every right to their homeland which was sparsely populated and given by Intl decree. They purchased a great deal of land which was highly priced. You blatantly ignore the massive illegal immigration of Arabs to the land for economic reasons, who never left; and you ignore the Jordanian war crime of flooding the West Bank with Arabs after it was ethnically cleansed in 1948. I would guess you also hug a picture of Mussolini as you fall asleep.
42. The $wi$$ are still the $wi$$.
Lee ,   Manchester UK   (04.13.11)
i should call their bluff on 'free speech' and make counter bus signs declaring the TRUTH. Let's really be able to judge the $wi$$ when they ban pro-Israel free speech. They won't let us down.
43. Put up Truth Posters! This is Another Suggested Poster!
Linda Rivera ,   New York, USA   (04.13.11)
This is about human rights for Jews and ALL non-Muslims! Global jihad targets EVERY non-Muslim. United we stand. Divided, we fall. Poster: Before 1948, Jews were known as the Palestinians. The Jewish newspaper, the Jerusalem Post was called the Palestine Post. The Jewish-founded electric company was Palestine Electric. The Palestinian Symphony Orchestra was all Jewish. During World War II, the British army had a Palestinian Brigade made up entirely of Jewish volunteers. After Jews migrated to Palestine in significant numbers in the late 1800s and miraculously transformed desert and swamps into rich, agricultural land, Arabs came in large numbers from Arab countries for jobs from Jews. The fact that the overwhelming majority of Arabs resided only briefly in Palestine is attested to by a one-time special UN decree: that any Arab who had resided in Palestine for only two years before 1948, and then left, would be considered a refugee and so would his descendants! Throughout history, people were never regarded as refugees if they had resided in a country for only two years because they were clearly citizens of other countries!
44. # 12 absolutely justified
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (04.13.11)
Sebastian ! as a German what else do you justify ?.
45. Established with violence
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (04.13.11)
yes,Israel was established with violence,violencce of the palestinians and 7 invading Arab Armies,who attacked Israel on May 15.48,the Palestinians attacked Israel and lost, now they should keep quiet,to gamble has a price,Islam came into being by violence,Mohamed killed Jews,christians,pagans,who refused to believe that he is a prophet,how does islam justify those killings ?.
46. #12 - plenty of evidence to support Herzl's claim
William ,   Israel   (04.14.11)
In the late 19th century, the province of Palestine was sparsely populated - and we know this thanks to accounts by visitors and by Ottomans and Turks. Thanks to Ottoman records, we see that only 5% of the land was privately owned - between Jews and Arabs. The rest was State land owned by Sultans. Israel was not born on the back of violence, it was born as a vote - the most democratic action known to man. It was the Arabs who didn't accept it and threatened genocidal war (hence, the violence) and Israel protected herself. The Arab nations in that neighborhood were created as favors and trumped ALL human rights of everyone. Finally, it seems that when an Arab walks into land and just squats on it, he is now the owner (as they did in the 1930s). When a Jew shows up and pays for it, his ownership is conditional forever based on public feelings. In 1948, Arabs ethnically cleansed the entire area of West Bank and Gaza of Jews, from land many owned for centuries. Arabs claim it as "Palestinian" land and your ilk somehow accept that war crime as "valid". How exactly is that fair, just, and palatable in the halls of the EU which claims to uphold human rights (while playing politics with people's lives around the world)? The EU has no credibility to claim to know the truth, when it contradicts itself daily.
47. Swiss Rail Victory
D Campbell ,   Sheffield, UK   (04.14.11)
@TheRock: it's a dangerous tactic to slander anti-zionists as anti-semites.
48. The wise person
DougBuchanan.com ,   Fairbanks Alaska   (04.14.11)
A wise person cannot be offended or insulted, but is instead genuinely curious about what life experiences produced the expressed insult. We might all have been born into them, and can therefore later learn them through discussions started by insults. Are you among the wise, or among the mindless minions of those who are unwise? Respectfully, DougBuchanan.com
49. Swiss Nazis
Patricia ,   New York USA   (04.15.11)
Swiss Nazis...I'm not surprised.
50. Enough with the Israeli Mafia in Switzerland
rudi ,   Switzerland   (04.15.11)
51. railways signs
zaheer durrani ,   quetta   (04.16.11)
#18 it is because Jews cannot share with neighbors and they cannot co exist
52. Freedom of speech
seagull ,   zurich switzerland   (05.16.13)
All i can say is the swiss have a very selective historical memory and a very morbid sense of humor to place an anti Israel poster in the train station not far from where trains led jews to concentration camps The human rights of Israeli jews and Arabs are not important or the right for honesty about what is really going on in the middle east and whose rights have been violated not those who vote democratically for terrorists to send rockets on civilians in israel, arabs and jews under rocket attack and this is supposed to be freedom ??
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