By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The decline in negative comments towards Israel and normalization was in part due to the public awareness campaigns carried out by the various governments that joined the Abraham Accords.
“I’m not an anti-Semite. My manager of 25 years is a white Jew,” Klein recalled Ice Cube telling him. “I’ve been to Jewish, pro-Israel events.”
Someone at Twitter clearly has some comprehension issues.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Americans Against Anti-Semitism slammed the outlet for considering someone as divisive as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, known for anti-Semitic and hate speech.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We hope this campaign finally shows Facebook how much their users and their advertisers want them to make serious changes for the better,” said ADL national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
By JoeSettler
Some NY Times editors believe that discussing alternatives to the two-state solution constitutes hate speech.
"See... those who control the money in the world can be counted on one hand - and all of them belong to the Jewish world."
By JNi.Media
A petition to "Stop Quebec Bill 59" says the bill "criminalizes criticism of Islam and anything considered an Islamic practice (Honor killings, honor rape, female genital mutilation, female oppression, and beating of wives and children)."
By JNi.Media
"If I post something from Adele or Taylor Swift, you can bet it'll be gone in a few hours."
YouTube shut down a whistle blower account as if it was inciting violence, rather than revealing incitement.
By JNi.Media
Deputy AG Nizri said that for every 100 complaints of incitement to violence, only one indictment is filed. “I do not believe in using indictments against words. I think the issue should be handled in the educational arena,” he said.
The Canadian government has expressed "zero tolerance" for boycotters of Israel.
By JTA
The summer war between Israel and Hamas released an explosion of online anti-Semitic hate speech in several European countries, an international watchdog reported.
The so-called French comedian Dieudonne is a suspect for money laundering after police raided his Paris home Tuesday and found more than $1 million in cash there and in a theatre he operates. If charged and convicted, his previous hate crimes, primarily anti-Semitic slurs against Jews, will seem like petty theft, and God willing, his […]
The French government has won a last minute appeal on Thursday to France’s highest court, which reinstated a ban lifted hours before by a third court and decided that the French anti-Semitic comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala cannot appear as scheduled in Nance. Interior Minister Manuel Valls appealed to the Council of State, France’s highest court […]
A controversy-courting Canadian Jewish television host apologized for a rant against the Roma people. Ezra Levant of the Sun TV network sparked widespread outrage in September when he referred to Roma as "gypsies" and "a culture synonymous with swindlers...one of the central characteristics of that culture is that their chief economy is theft and begging." […]
By Daniel Pipes
My last article prompted a solemn reply from Sheila Musaji of The American Muslim website, who deemed it "irresponsible and beyond the pale." Why so? Because, as she puts it, "The solution to escalating violence and hate speech is not more hate speech."
By Zev Hurwitz, Israel Campus Beat
A report recommended that UC consider banning all hate speech from its nine campuses.
There is no scientific equation to determine what is hatred, but a Facebook picture of a smiling Anne Frank surrounded by the caption, "What's that burning? Oh it's my family" is an easy one. So is a Facebook picture of a baby on a scale emblazoned with a Jewish Star, where the bottom of the scale is a meat grinder with raw ground meat (presumably, a baby's) oozing out.
The ad states: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” The MTA refused to run it.
When Free Speech Collides with Hate Speech, Truth is the Remedy.
By JTA
French police said they were investigating death threats made against the country’s chief rabbi. Polices said over the weekend that they are looking for people connected to a photomontage disseminated through Facebook which shows Rabbi Gilles Bernheim with a revolver pointing at his head. The picture shows Bernheim wearing a Star of David on his […]
By Ann Snyder
The Human Rights Council concluded its nineteenth session on March 23, 2012 and adopted, without a vote, yet another resolution aimed at restricting freedom of speech throughout the world. While its title, as usual, suggests it is about combating intolerance based on religion, its plain language shows that, once again, speech is the real target.
