Paul Donnachie
We read:
"A student at St Andrews University has been found guilty of a racist breach of the peace after he insulted the flag of Israel.
Donnachie has been expelled from St Andrews
The court heard that Donnachie and Mr Colchester entered the halls at 01:30 on 12 March to see another student who shared the flat.
Lithuanian-born Mr Reitblat said he had the 4ft by 3ft flag on the wall after being given it by his brother, an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier.
He said Donnachie noticed the flag, and said Israel was a terrorist state and the flag was a terrorist symbol. He then unbuttoned his trousers, put his hands down his pants, pulled off a pubic hair and rubbed it over the flag.
Sentencing Donnachie, a history student and member of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, sheriff Charlie Macnair said: "This flag was his personal property. I consider that your behaviour did evince malice towards Mr Reitblat because of his presumed membership of Israel. "I'm satisfied that you said Israel was a terrorist state and the flag was a terrorist symbol and I also hold that you said that Mr Reitblat was a terrorist."
Sentence on Donnachie was deferred for background reports.
Outside the court, a tearful Donnachie said he would appeal. He said: "This is a ridiculous conviction. I'm a member of anti-racism campaigns, and I am devastated that as someone who was fought against racism I have been tarnished in this way."
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He tarnished himself. He's sure got a funny way of fighting against racism. Just an unthinking Left-indoctrinated fool, I guess.
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He may have tarnished himself, but whatever happened to freedom of expression? About the only charge I see is an act of "vandalism," if rubbing a single pubic hair on a flag actually causes any damage to the physical flag itself.
As much as I enjoy turnabout when leftists get caught in their own traps, it is extremely distressing that the traps exist to begin with...
Shocked the school expelled him given he probably learned his leftist antisemitism from the professors there.
It was someone else's property, so it was vandalism. Liberals would outlaw people destroying their OWN property as ahate crime. Like outlawing burning korans. If someone burned someone else's koran, then sure, arest them. But not if they destroy their own. This guy did something to someone else's property
guilty only of very poor taste.
"Whatever happened to freedom of expression"? Well, nothing. He was able to express himself and nobody stopped him. Unfortunately, people are confusing "Freedom of Expression" with "Freedom from Consequences". You can call your boss at work a jackass to his face and no one will stop you, but please spare us the freedom of speech line when he fires you.
I cannot support this.
This young man was stupid and behaved badly (and ignorantly IMHO) - however, what he did does not warrant the penalty, nor does it justify silly race-hate laws.
Apologise, learn from your mistakes, have the flag dry-cleaned, then move on.
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