
| Msg # 12517 of 12811 on ZZUK4448, Thursday 8-06-25, 6:38 |
| From: JNUGENT |
| To: JEFF GAINES |
| Subj: Re: BBC Charter |
From: JNugent73@mail.com On 05/08/2025 07:09 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote: > On 05/08/2025 in message <0599948488.040230b8@uninhabited.net> Roger > Hayter wrote: > >>> Still confused, antisemitism seems to be a crime, how does that arise if >>> we have no laws >>> about Jewish people? >> >> Antisemitism isn't crime. Any more than other forms or racism or >> religious >> intolerance isn't a crime. Even paedophilia is not a crime. Expressing >> antisemitic views in the wrong place can make one unpopular or >> unemployable, >> but it is not a crime. >> >> It is what one says or does to promote or practise antisemitism that >> may be >> criminal. Just as with my other examples of unpopular ideas. > > Thank you :-) > > Sorry if I am doing this to death but the IHRA working definition says: > > "Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, > schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into > account the overall context, include, but are not limited to: > > Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical > allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective €€€ such > as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish > conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or > other societal institutions." > > If I were to suggest that Netanyahu has tentacles in the White House, > that it is over represented with Jewish people and this is evidenced by > America's unquestioning support of Israel even when the world condemns > what Israel is doing have I been antisemitic and, if so, what are the > consequences? People would accuse you of antisemitism. That's all in the circumstances you outlined. You would have to do something which discriminated aginst a Jewish person for it to be an offence (or actionable). > > PS I don't know if the group answered your point about being sued for > giving advice but I promise not to sue you :-) > --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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