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.
Please remember guys that “Free USA” is antichristian!
What’s “Free Willy” then?
Free Willy is an illusion! Everything is predeterminy
Even back when I was a wee baby in the 90s, it cost at least $8 to free Willy, and a drink and popcorn were easily twice that.
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?)
I’ll never forgive them for ruining Hollywood/the MCU.
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[E: Republicans] 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
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I’m agreeing with OP.
The Republicans are painting Jews as warmongers. What the Republicans are doing is antisemitic.
Ah yeah, didn’t read that way haha. Thanks for clarifying 💙
“Wont someone think of the
children!Jews!”The irony being that both versions of the phrase are used by people who don’t actually give a shit about these groups and are just weaponizing it to push a political agenda.
It doesn’t matter. All the Palestinians will be dead or ethnically cleansed soon.
Are Republicans against being free?
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
They aren’t even slightly free.
Conservatives have always been against freedom.
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.
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.
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
I’m glad they can just decide what we should think.
I find it anti-Semitic to equate pro-genocide with Judaism.
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.
I’m not anti-semetic. My dentist is Jewish.
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.
Free Palestine.
How does the end result (Palestine is free) look in detail?
At this point… bleak.
Realistically let’s start with actual control over Gaza and the West Bank and access to, you know, stuff like food, water, medicine, education, and other things considered “human rights” when it’s related to the right people. Abolishing illegal settlements would be welcomed as well.
Israel should’ve never existed but it does and it will continue to do so.
Typical Internet. It’s the right to free speech. If horrible people don’t have the right to say what they want, then it’s not free speech. Period.
I don’t appreciate being incorrectly associated with these horrible people just because I believe in rights.
I wonder how few democrats will vote nay.
