Dutch politician Esther Ouwehand was asked to remove her first shirt (Palestine flag), so she came back wearing another one of watermelon seeds.
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What’s the significance of watermelon seeds?
Watermelon has been used as a plausibly deniable way to show support for Palestine since 1967 per Wikipedia, since it shares the same colors as the flag while being a completely common and innocuous item.
I was not aware of this. Thank you kindly
TIL about watermelon 🍉 support
E: there ought to be a list of hidden meaning of various emojis
Same colors as the one she was told to remove.
Who asked her and under what authority?
This timeline is batshit insane
At least in Germany, and I imagine it would be similar in the Netherlands, it would be the parliament’s president because political symbols on clothing are not allowed.
Not really. The Israeli flag has been raised over the German Bundestag building
You know that a building is not the same as clothing, right?
Why does it matter on what the political symbol is?
Aww, you’re so cute. Like the law would care about common sense instead of opressing minorities ;p
Thats cute that you say opressing minorities because that decision (to put up the flag on that day) was made unanimously.
Because you’re talking about a law or rule - it is literally all about how it is written - people build entire careers on debating the interpretation of how they are written.
“No government employee can wear political symbols to work” is 100%, clearly and entirely not the same as “No political symbols may be shown anywhere on any government property”
Seriously?? A downvote?? You asked why it matters, I explained why it matters, jfc, leave the nasty Reddit behaviour on Reddit tyvm.
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Yeah because the Bundestag voted for it (unanimously btw)
Had some similar silliness in the Ontario provincial parliament in Canada when they decided a keffiyeh was a ‘political symbol’ or some such bs - they threw a member right out for refusing to take it off.
IMO, it would be better if politicians were like Nascar drivers. At least it would be more honest.
The speaker of the house asked her, but only when urged to by another member of parliament who reminded him that earlier this year, another member was asked to change the T-shirt he was wearing with a foetus on it during a debate about abortion. The rule is that the appearance of the parliament should be neutral.
By the way, because she was asked to change her clothes, the moment was aired in all talk shows that evening, with an explanation of the watermelon blouse she wore later (and which the speaker suggested she wore instead by the way), so this incident only helped to get her message out there.
Watermelon is often used as a symbol of Palestinian resistance as it has the same colours as the flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_as_a_Palestinian_symbol
@DrBob The watermelon is sometimes used as a symbol of the Palestinian flag because of the colours: green and white rind, red flesh, black seeds.
Both shirts are very well designed.
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