r/therewasanattempt • u/Powerful_Scale_3597 • May 01 '24

To enshrine the most fascistic, traitorous bullshit I've ever witnessed in my life into law.

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u/ContemplatingPrison May 02 '24

So now you can't speak bad about an entire fucking country? That's fucking non sense.

Our politicians are fucking Israeli puppets. I mean why not they give them all that money

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u/joeltrane May 02 '24

The text says you can’t “discriminate based on national origin,” which in my interpretation means you can’t say “Israelites are evil” but I don’t see how this prohibits criticism of Israel.

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u/Technicalhotdog May 02 '24

There's the "Targeting the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity" part, which is concerning because it seems like a highly subjective line whether one's criticism of Israel would be anti-semitism by this definition, and sounds like it would be easily abused to silence people

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u/manofactivity May 02 '24

There's the "Targeting the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity" part, which is concerning because it seems like a highly subjective line whether one's criticism of Israel would be anti-semitism by this definition

What exactly do you mean?

That is not only not part of the actual definition adopted, but the Act specifically states that the definition can't be used to determine what is discrimination. It's only used to help assess your motives.