from Times of Israel
Law enforcement dropped charges, but only after after 8-month ordeal; interrogator asked suspect if he thought placard would offend pro-Hezbollah protesters
British police arrested and charged a Jewish man in London in September with racial harassment for holding a poster satirizing Hezbollah — with officers at one stage expressing concern that supporters of the terror group would be offended — only dropping the charges earlier this month, the Telegraph reported Friday.
The placard mocked Hassan Nasrallah by showing the Hezbollah leader with a pager and the words “beep, beep, beep,” a reference to the Israeli operation in September that saw pagers and walkie-talkies explode and kill 42 people.
The man, who was a counter-protester on September 20 at an anti-Israel demonstration near the home of Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in Swiss Cottage, north-west London, held the placard for less than three minutes; he chose to remain anonymous out of fear for his safety.
On September 27, an Israeli airstrike killed Nasrallah in Beirut. That same day, the man returned to Swiss Cottage for another counter-protest and was arrested.