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.
And to preempt any “all lives matter” bullshit:
Nazi lives don’t matter
I have that bumper sticker on my vehicle. Hasn’t been vandalized yet.
-Cthulhu
All racial groups lives matter.
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
Then find out.
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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.