• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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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.