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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

🇺🇦 yesterday, 🍉 today… what’s tomorrow?

...what about watermelon now?

[–] brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In places where displaying the Palestinian is banned or restricted (Israel, Germany, etc) people display images of watermelons instead to circumvent those bans.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Thank you! I was wondering if it was some sort of Unicode mismatch or something, lol

[–] the_wise_wolf@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Displaying the Palestinian flag is not illegal in Germany. That's misinformation.

In case you're interested what is forbidden: https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/pro-palaestina-demonstration-verboten-illegal-100.html

[–] brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

I did say banned or restricted