• Omega@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I assume “calling for the killing or harming of Jews” is meant in the general sense. But what happens if it’s directed at one person, who happens to be Jewish. Let’s say the individual is a criminal and people wish harm upon them. Would that count?

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      6 months ago

      I feel like the illegality of threatening to murder a specific person was never really in question regardless of legislature waiting on the Senate’s approval,

      But Fuck Netanyahu

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        6 months ago

        Calling for the killing or harming of someone is not the same as threatening someone.

        For example, I would never say “I’m going to kill Netanyahu”, but I AM aware of the FACT that the world would become a better place if someone, for example himself, did.

        Likewise, it’s always been illegal to threaten Jewish people, just like anyone else, but this law is at the very least a step towards criminalizing all criticism of the actions of a fascist apartheid regime by equating Israel and by extension its government with all Jewish people, which is itself a very antisemitic thing to do.