Congress BANS Israel Criticism With New 'Hate Speech' Law

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This is against the 1st amendment that guarantees our right to free speech.I am not going to listen to a government tell me what I can and can not say.

Turns out the GOP can really get behind anti-hate speech legislation, but only if it protects one of the few minorities they actually sometimes care about.

Needless assault on free speech AFAI can see.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/mtg-votes-against-antisemitism-awareness-act-antisemitic-trope/73539622007/

Proof of what I said earlier in this thread.

Yes, this is definitely against free speech laws
A wiki entry about discriminatory conspiracy theories
Trying to reply to this thread with a sarcastic joke without triggering the site's racial slur ban is extremely challenging.

edit：I haven’t read the text of the law carefully, and if it is to oppose verbal violence and physical attacks on Jews, then it is good; but the timing makes it difficult not to connect it with the ongoing student protests. It would be terrible if the police could use this law to deal with students.

You have the right to express antisemitic views in America (or racist views or any views), but even if you didnt ...criticizing the government of Israel is not the same thing as "expressing antisemitic views".

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MTG is saying that "we American Christian Evangelists support the right of Christ-killers to have their own homeland! So ya cant take away our right talk about Christ-killers because it would interfere with us helping our friends and allies...the said Christ-killers, to keep their homeland !".

The government does not have endless money so it constantly is making decisions on who gets funded. Already it is mandatory that open discrimination does not get funded. This law expands the definition of discrimination to include saying Jews do not have a right to a state. Police and courts do not decide if the law has been broken and enforce this law, bureaucrats do.

The opponents of the law say it chills speech just as if a court sentenced you to prison or fined you for saying Jews do not have a right to self determination. Yes it does, that is the whole point of the law. If we accept this, we on a slippery slope to who knows what. Probably true.

The purpose of this post is to note that this law is not going into completely unchartered territory. If a owner of a company said it is too bad Hitler did finish not the job there would no controversy about defunding that company.

As far as the Christian Right agreeing with a lot of liberal zionist Jews, politics does make for strange bedfellows, often for nefarious reasons. Nothing new.

interestingly that anyone might suppose that people whom engage our society through and or control mass media
assets , That may or maynot be of the Jewish faith ...would even vote anything but Republican....because of absolute Capitolistic business interests . Not that there is anything really going on here, other than trying to control the population through devisiveness,snd creating hysteria and antagonizing situations to effect this same ending , of creating devisiveness. .... So prople are not paying attn. to their rights being eroded ..
BTW: before all this hapoened, why wasn't there effective anti hate laws against Aspies and ND people very long ago , that should have been enforced . Long ago.... And people getting the same treatment as those committing fillicide
against these same ND people....ADA protections were never afforded me. When I was in court. Even after I called them