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.
Palestine will be free. Got 'em!
I’m not anti-semetic. My dentist is Jewish.
Jewish man here.
FREE PALESTINE!
Israel is a terror state.
The USA is a rogue state.
Get your pitchforks.
Even the actual Nazis werent as bold as to start calling other people Nazis just to distract from themselves.
Look guys, if the people who go around blaming Jews for trying to replace white people say Free Palestine is antisemitic, who are we to argue? I never knew space lasers could be so Jewish until the authorities on antisemitism enlightened me. Was it not a nutcase conservative who taught you the power of a few parenthesis? They’re the experts here.
Okay, then liberate Palestine!
Sorry bud, the word “Palestine” is also now antisemitic-- and is itself a call for genocide , I’m told.
https://www.jns.org/the-word-palestine-is-genocide/
I wish I was kidding.
You would think they would start with an easier one like “heil Hitler” being antisemitic, but they seem perfectly okay with that one.
You mean the “my heart goes out to you” gesture?
“Mein Herz ist bei dir!”
Someone no doubt once argued against Antisemitic law with the reasoning that it could be used to justify whatever those in power wanted and that was not a wise risk to take. Someone else said ‘shut up, you racist’ and passed the laws.
Those people armed their opponents with the very weapons that would be used against them. Congrats, liberals. Your unwise use of power has empowered the unwise.
Palestinians are semites. Also being against genocide isn’t antisemitism
The Semites thing is a red herring. anti-Semitism is Jew hatred.
Saving people a quick search.
What is meant by semitic people?
Semitic describes a group of languages — including Hebrew and Arabic — as well as the people who traditionally speak them. Semitic is rooted in the Biblical name Shem, the son of Noah, who is traditionally thought of as the direct ancestor of the Jews and Arabs.
“Semites” as a description of a set of people is as much antiquated a terminology as the word “Aryans”. In fact it was Ernest Renan that first made that distinction in the 19th century to specifically frame history as a tension between Semites and Aryans (cf Hannah Arendt). It’s of course just a bunch of scientific racism bollocks. And it is precisely because of that that the term “antisemitism” has always meant hatred of Jews in particular (in the “Jews vs Aryans” sense).
The only term that persists in the sciences today is the term “semitic languages”, which is basically similar to “indo-european languages”, and which of course has nothing to do with antisemitism.
This is just the right wing weaponizing accusations of antisemitism even as they, themselves, are antisemitic.
Are Republicans against being free?
The fundamental basis of conservatism is that freedom means having power over other people. Therefore they believe that any attempt to extend freedom to others means taking it away from them.
they’re fascist
Yeah I thought that was pretty well established at this point
THEY can be free… it’s just the rest of us who have to stay within the lines
Conservatives have always been against freedom.
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.
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
No lives matter, and that’s a fact.
-Cthulhu
I have that bumper sticker on my vehicle. Hasn’t been vandalized yet.
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.
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.
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Free Palestine
Yep.
Free Palestine.
It’s not illegal yet, but go on, do your virtue posturing 👍
Better than the vice signalling you seem to like to partake in.
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.
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.
I’ll do you one better, Protect
GamoraPalestine!
Didn’t Orwell have something to say about redefining words and phrases. Well, even if he didn’t, yikes.
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
You have been cordially invited to the Ministry of Love good citizen. A black van with blacked-out windows will be arriving soon.
Well, when you put it that way… Free Palestine.
