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.
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?
Palestinians are semites. Also being against genocide isn’t antisemitism
Yeah all this bill says is Gabe Evans is an Antisemite.
The Semites thing is a red herring. anti-Semitism is Jew hatred.
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.
Remember kids, this is cheapening the word anti-Semitism and making it more and more meaningless. In the long run, this will hurt Jews. (Who do you think will be blamed by the fascists for US imperial over-extension?)
Portraying Jews collectively, universally as perpetrators of genocide seems antisemitic and hurts Jews.
And when you see someone conflating all Jews with the Israeli government, you are free, nay encouraged, to call that shit out.
But guess what’s NOT happening in this thread? Or this entire comment section?
Israel is committing genocide.
Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood Jew
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.
I find it anti-Semitic to equate pro-genocide with Judaism.
Free Palestine
Yep.
Free Palestine.
I’ll do you one better, Protect
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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.
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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.
They’d probably deport you to Israel, which would serve the goals of both the American and Israeli Nazis.
Exactly.
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.
Are Republicans against being free?
they’re fascist
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.
Conservatives have always been against freedom.
THEY can be free… it’s just the rest of us who have to stay within the lines
They aren’t even slightly free.
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
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.
How about calling the country “Israhell” (Israel) with its genuine name “Occupied Palestine”?
What happened to “America First”?
I wonder how few democrats will vote nay.
