The following is my answer to a Quora question: “I saw a Malay kid, in Singapore, frothing in mouth for Palestine, and posting hateful message against Israel. Is he about to be radicalised? Should I report him to the authorities?”
What are you going to report him for? For having a political opinion different from yours? How does that make him radicalised? Radicalisation is the action or process of causing someone to adopt radical positions on political or social issues, that post a security threat to the state. Like many people, he has a position on the Palestinian conflict, and he is exercising his right to an opinion, albeit in a less than elegant manner. None of that is against the law, or a threat to Singapore.
When a rightwing government in Israel provoked a conflict to keep
an embattled prime minister in power in order to stave off the prosecution of
his corruption, the State of Israel would expect it to create drama all over
the world. That is democracy and freedom
of speech at work. The only people who are
invested in this superstition of Israel as a holy land are extremist Christian
Zionists, and allied Jewish groups from that side of the political spectrum.
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