The House of Representatives is trying to pass a resolution making the term “Free Palestine” an official antisemitic slogan.
Republican Representative Gabe Evans from Colorado introduced the resolution in the wake of the attack on a gathering for Israeli hostages in Boulder this week. Mohammed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, has been charged for the attack, during which he yelled “Free Palestine,” according to the FBI.
“Whereas, while shouting ‘Free Palestine,’ an antisemitic slogan that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and Jewish people, Mohammed Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov cocktails,” the resolution reads. House Republicans are expected to vote on the nonbinding resolution next week.
Land of the free!
What happened to “America First”?
Trump already fixed America. It’s great again, got a new gulf and everything.
Next up, Republicans prepare bill declaring “Black Lives Matter” is racist against white people.
And to preempt any “all lives matter” bullshit:
Nazi lives don’t matter
All racial groups lives matter.
Which is literally the message of “black lives matter.”
Black lives matter means all racial groups lives matter? Wouldn’t that imply all racial groups are black?
I know it might be difficult to grasp, but no.
The point of the slogan is to bring attention to the fact that, in countless ways, black lives are currently treated as if they matter less. On a systemic level. So before you say I’m calling you racist, that’s not what’s happening.
It might make more sense if you mentally add the word “too” at the end of it. “Black Lives Matter too” is pretty much the gist of it.
People who say things like this usually act like black and brown lives don’t matter.
Which is the crux of the problem.
I have no clue what you are talking about.
Well that’s a huge surprise
No lives matter, and that’s a fact.
-Cthulhu
I have that bumper sticker on my vehicle. Hasn’t been vandalized yet.
Didn’t Orwell have something to say about redefining words and phrases. Well, even if he didn’t, yikes.
You have been cordially invited to the Ministry of Love good citizen. A black van with blacked-out windows will be arriving soon.
He sure did… Controlling language as a means of eventually controlling thought.
I always thought that part of the book seemed boring and far-fetched in my teens and 20s.
Boy was I wrong
Free Palestine
I’ll do you one better, Protect
GamoraPalestine!Yep.
Free Palestine.
It’s not illegal yet, but go on, do your virtue posturing 👍
1st amendment baby. Can’t be made illegal and they can’t redefine just like they can’t redefine pi as 3.14. It simply isn’t antisemitism to call for the liberation of an oppressed people.
And this isn’t even a law, it’s a resolution.
That’s literally the least thing Congress can do, after just walking into the building.
And a nonbinding bill that flies in the face of the first amendment isn’t posturing?
We should expect better from elected officials than randos on the internet.
Better than the vice signalling you seem to like to partake in.
What always stuck me as odd with that attack on the Israeli’s was that the cops didn’t blast that guy full of holes the moment they got there. I always thought it was a very out of character show of restraint from the same cops that shoot black children out the window of their car if they see them with a stick in their hands.
I know it’s fucking mad to suggest such a thing, but was it a false flag attack? Intended to give some credence to future “antisemitism” measures like this?
π = 3
I’m not antisemitic. I know that I’m not, even if I can’t prove that to anyone who cannot see into my mind. But in words and actions, I’ve never done or said anything antisemitic.
I believe that Palestine should be free. Passing a law isn’t going to change my mind or affect my behavior. If someone calls me antisemitic, they’re either mistaken or lying. Passing a law won’t change the truth behind their words.
Making a statement legally classified as antisemitism opens up legal retaliation under the guise of “hate speech”, which is not protected speech.
It doesn’t change the truth of it, but it does change he the consequences of it.
Not be contrarian, but this is a common misconception. Hate speech IS protected speech in the US, but it can be used to enhance the punishment of a related crime into a hate crime.
It can also, under specific circumstances, be considered “fighting words”. But again, that depends on the specific context and is not broadly true.
This is one of my least favorite facts, but it is unfortunately true
I mean, if we’re being technical then “hate speech” isn’t a legal term at all, but I should have made it clearer that I was alleging the republicans were building their usual flimsy-as-shit-case to harass their “enemies”.
That is for sure. There is no question that it is an asinine attempt by the GOP to weaponize the law, rather than a genuine attempt at protecting Jews in any way, shape or form
As if it fucking matters when we have students being deported for writing an op-ed in their school newspaper suggesting Israel stop committing genocide.
Oh well, they can label me what they want. This does nothing to change my mind.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
No human should be treated as less than another. No human should be seen as offensive to another.
Why is Great Britain not getting so much fucking hate for how they historical contributed to this conflict? If people are wanting to legalize hate towards the humanitarian treatment of a whole territory and people, why is the nation that contributed to their existence not being criticized?
I wonder how few democrats will vote nay.
Is being antisemitic a crime?
shouting ‘Free Palestine,’ an antisemitic slogan that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and Jewish people
Holy fucking Moses. It absolutely does not call for that.
“I love X.”
“Why do you hate and want to destroy Y, huh? You piece of shit, fuck X. Y is the best!”
But seriously, fuck X.
Gonna have to start using A and B as variables instead… Because I concur: fuck X.
Well, when you put it that way… Free Palestine.
Boy is my face gonna be red when they “deport” my ass because I’m Jewish. So many people in my community still think the leopards are gonna get full before eating their faces.
Exactly.
They’d probably deport you to Israel, which would serve the goals of both the American and Israeli Nazis.
