{"id":69209,"date":"2019-04-06T17:05:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=69209"},"modified":"2019-04-06T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:33:09","slug":"15-05-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=69209","title":{"rendered":"BDS Activist in Racist Air India Tirade Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>BDS Activist in Racist Air India Tirade Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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BDS advocate Simone O\u2019Broin was arrested following a drunken racist rant on an Air India flight. Photo: Facebook.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A lawyer and vocal BDS activist was jailed for six months by a British court on Thursday, after she was\u00a0convicted for drunkenness and assault on a crew member in the business class cabin of an Air India flight from Mumbai to London last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge Nicholas Wood told defendant Simone O\u2019Broin: \u201cThe experience of a drunk and irrational person in the confines of an aircraft is frightening, not least on a long-haul flight and poses a potential risk to safety.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the aircraft was not put at risk by O\u2019Broin\u2019s aggressive and disruptive behavior, the judge added that \u201cfor the luckless and unfortunate passengers and crew, there is no escape at 30,000ft.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The nightmare<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on the 9-hour flight in November 2018 began when cabin staff refused to serve O\u2019Broin more alcohol, as she was already heavily inebriated from consuming three 25cl bottles of red wine during the first hour of the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses recalled that O\u2019Broin had stumbled to her feet and launched into an expletive-laden rant, at one point spitting in the face of a female crew member.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSpitting straight into a crew member\u2019s face at close range is a particularly insulting and upsetting act,\u201d Judge Wood chided O\u2019Broin. The court was told that the assaulted attendant later testified, \u201cIn the 34 years I have worked for Air India, this is the first time I have been treated like this by a woman. I felt abused.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

O\u2019Broin\u2019s disruptive behavior continued throughout the flight. On three separate occasions, she broke passenger rules by smoking a cigarette in the toilet. After receiving several\u00a0verbal warnings, she was arrested on arrival at London\u2019s Heathrow Airport.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout her on-board tirade, O\u2019Broin emphasized\u00a0her credentials as a \u201cf**** leader of the [anti-Israel] boycott movement\u201d and \u201cf****\u00a0international criminal lawyer and barrister.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf I say \u2018boycott f***Air India,\u2019 done,\u201d she boasted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her alcohol-fueled anger quickly took a racist turn, as she accused the Indian staff of showing a lack of gratitude for her work in defense of Palestinian rights, and human rights more generally on the Asian continent.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI work for all you f**** people\u2026 The f**** Rohingyas, the f**** people of all Asia, for you, I\u2019m an international criminal lawyer,\u201d O\u2019Broin rampaged, in a reference to the largely Muslim minority in Myanmar that has faced\u00a0genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t get any money for it by the way. But you won\u2019t give me a f*** glass of wine, is that correct?\u201d she continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turning to her fellow business class passengers, O\u2019Broin screamed, \u201cI\u2019m a human rights lawyer, for the f**** Palestinian people, and the rest of you, and you all\u00a0sit on your f**** a****.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

O\u2019Broin\u2019s advocacy for the Palestinian cause includes several years spent working for a Palestinian advocacy group, the Badil Resource Center, which is located in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. During her time with the group in the late 2000s, O\u2019Broin authored a research paper titled \u201cApplying International Criminal Law to Israel\u2019s Treatment of the Palestinian People.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, despite her concern for legality, O\u2019Broin\u2019s writings reveal her profound support for\u00a0Palestinian\u00a0violence against Israel \u2014 depicted by her as legitimate resistance to occupation, rather than terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one article headlined \u201cThe Right to Resist,\u201d O\u2019Broin denounced Israel as \u201cthe apartheid regime all over Mandate Palestine [that] is brutal in its violence and humiliation of the Palestinian people.\u201d She also\u00a0deployed the word \u201cracist\u201d to describe the Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the same article, she invoked the Nazi occupation of France as a precedent justifying Palestinian terrorism against Israelis. \u201cAny right to resistance for the Palestinian people is linked to their inalienable right to self-determination,\u201d O\u2019Broin wrote. \u201cThis would be the same principle on which the allied forces supported resistance in the countries occupied in WWII, such as France.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

O\u2019Broin, who was ordered to pay $500 in damages to the attendant she assaulted along with\u00a0her prison sentence, did not contest the charges against her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her lawyer, Mark Kimsey, said that O\u2019Broin was\u00a0\u201ctotally ashamed of her behavior.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kimsey continued: \u201cThis is not a lady who has a drink problem. This is not a woman who has a drug problem. This is totally out of character.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

O\u2019Broin\u00a0was diagnosed with facial skin cancer in 2000 and has had multiple biopsies and surgeries for\u00a0what is \u201can active problem,\u201d according to Kimsey. He added\u00a0that O\u2019Broin had received death threats after details of her conduct on board the Air India flight emerged in the media.<\/span><\/p>\n

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