The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”If anybody votes against this, they’ll say they voted to support Colorado terrorist attack.Update (from comments): A Nitter link to the Ryan Grim tweet in the screenshot: https://xcancel.com/ryangrim/status/1930972170479370686#USpol #FreePalestine #Genocide #Israel #Antisemitism #Fascism#Palestine @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

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[–] 61 points 1 year ago

That's fucked up and unconstitutional (not that it matters to Trumo and co) but I will say it FREE PALESTINE!!! and for good measure FUCK ISRAEL FUCKING NAZIS.

Now I am going go touch some grass, I am done with these fucking racist fascist.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    silly leftists, free speech is for racists

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Old Soviet Joke.

    Two agents meet in a bar in Germany on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The CIA agent says to the KGB agent, "Why do you continue to support the Soviet Union? You have no freedom in your country. Come to the United States. In our country, we can criticize our leaders. I can say 'Death to Ronald Reagan' and nobody will stop me."

    The KGB agent shakes his head, smiling. "Why would I want to travel all the way to America in order to say that? In Moscow, we also say 'Death to Ronald Reagan' whenever we please."

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Another one: A CIA agent and a KGB agent meet at a bar after talking for a while the KGB agent says to the CIA agent „You know one thing we really admire back in the USSR is your propaganda it’s really top notch“ the CIA agent looks confused and asks, „What propaganda?“

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Congress can deem whatever they want, I'm gonna keep saying Free Palestine until Palestine is free.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Palestinian people are semetic.

    Semetic does not exclusively mean Jewish.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    As someone who is Jewish this is insanity.

    I SAY DEATH TO THE FASCISTS AND THE ZIONIST TYRANTS, I WANT NO MORE OF THE LIES

    DEATH TO THE TYRANTS

    DEATH TO REACTION

    DEATH TO DECEIT

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Getting it out while I still can: Free Palestine!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    so a slogan, that involves a semitic country with actual semitic roots, is antisemitic? Can't make this shit up.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Do it, im gonna keep saying "Free Palestine!" regardless... these asshats are just trying to distract from their other shitty policies with this.

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    Zionist ideology was around before Hitler even rose to power (Theodor Herzl is credited with founding of modern Zionism in the 1890s and he advocated relocation of Arabs and pushed "neglected soil" justifications) and the Nazis were specifically inspired by the US genocide of natives and jim crow.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Palestine will be free!

    Fuck fascists.

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    This passes and those shitweasels will declare BLM is "an antiwhite slogan" and move to ban it the same way. Then test the waters for other things, like calling Yam Tits "Yam Tits"... Right to jail.

    Guarantee this is what they're going for. Systematically destroying our freedoms.

    🖕🤬🖕

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Free speech protections are still in place, and this is why they are important. This resolution can't prevent people from saying it, just signals that the current house of representatives wants to.

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    I'm not saying they couldn't be stronger. There is a huge problem with abusing deportations this way, and other forms of legislating speech by enforcement. But please consider how much worse things can get, and what barriers still remain between here and there. That it isn't a crime to say "Free Palestine", that it isn't a simple matter of declaring it a racist slogan to make it a crime, does mean something.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But please consider how much worse things can get, and what barriers still remain between here and there.

    The barriers are largely logistical. And I believe Trump's allies in Silicon Valley are closing the gap between what they want and what they can practically achieve.

    That it isn’t a crime to say “Free Palestine”

    If you can be targeted, arrested, and deported for doing a thing, it is a crime in every way that matters.

    I guess its nice they didn't subject him to torture, indefinite detention, or summary execution. But given how many people are being sent to international black sites and concentration camps, that's hardly a given.

    The question isn't whether things can get worse. The question is whether there are any avenues left for things to get better. I'm increasingly pessimistic, given the current state of play.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If you can be targeted, arrested, and deported for doing a thing, it is a crime in every way that matters.

    To the extent that this does not apply to citizens at scale, there are many more people who are not effectively silenced. If they pass laws that are upheld and able to effectively silence everyone, that would be objectively a big step towards crushing dissent. There are relatively recent laws by conservative states attempting to regulate social media that have been blocked for 1st Amendment reasons. I don't see a reason to consider the legal barriers useless, they pretty clearly matter a lot here.

    And I believe Trump’s allies in Silicon Valley are closing the gap between what they want and what they can practically achieve.

    We're here, on a network not controlled by those companies. Free speech protections are a big part of what makes that possible.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Peaceful protests are being quashed by the literal US military/national guard. There are videos of police specifically targeting people with signs/flags they don't like with "less lethals".

    Before that campus protests calling for an end to genocide were quashed by local police.

    People who attend either of these protests are being jailed and/or deported.

    "Free speech" is a myth.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Double down on that genocide, bitches, and the news/public will track the names of the ones that do.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Nah, the news won’t do that. They’re all owned by oligarchs who are responsible for the current state of the world. Corporate news is not on our side.

    No one is coming to save us, we have to do it ourselves.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    GOP Rep Introduces Resolution Labeling ‘Free Palestine’ Slogan as ‘Anti-Semitism’ - Activist Post (2025-06-15)activistpost.com/gop-rep-intro———>> Colorado GOP Congressman Gabe Evans introduced a non-binding resolution on Friday that labels ‘Free Palestine’ as “an antisemitic slogan.” The bill seeks to limit immigration of people who oppose Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and Tel Aviv’s genocidal onslaught in the besieged Gaza Strip. The bill is expected to be voted on some time next week.The bill reads, “Whereas, while shouting ‘Free Palestine,’ an antisemitic slogan that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and Jewish people, Mohammed Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov cocktails.”Resolution (PDF) link:acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:#USPol #FakeAntisemitism #FreePalestine @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "That's a funny way to spell "destroy Israel""

    Insanity

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How many wars and genocides does Israel have to be involved in before "Destroy Israel" becomes a more popular slogan?

    Nobody seems shy about saying "Destroy Russia" or "Break up China" or even "Invade Mexico". Hell, nobody seems shy about saying "Nuke Iran". Beginning to think there might be some kind of regional political bias to which countries we're allowed to fantasize about demolishing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Land of the REEEEE

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    @faab64 @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe A Nitter link to the Ryan Grim tweet in the screenshot: xcancel.com/ryangrim/status/19

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  • [+] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If I’m not mistaken, these resolutions don’t have the force of law. Basically it’s just a glorified memo.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thank you for doing the legwork comrade.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's worth noting that they found either Newer or outdated information.

    From my own search, direcly from the Congress.Gov page on HR485.

    "Whereas, while shouting ``Free Palestine'', an antisemitic slogan that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people, Mohammed Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov cocktails;"

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/485/text/ih?format=txt

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's not a "complete lie". We should be willing to fact check, but we must also be mindful not rush to jump to such harsh dismissals.

    I don't know the reason for the discrepancy, but this is specifically from Congress.Gov House res. 485.

    "Whereas, while shouting ``Free Palestine'', an antisemitic slogan that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people, Mohammed Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov cocktails;"

    Full text and link below.

    Whereas, on June 1, 2025, Mohammed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national illegally in the United States, committed a terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, against marchers peacefully demonstrating in support of the release of hostages held captive by Hamas; **Whereas, while shouting Free Palestine'', an antisemitic slogan that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people, Mohammed Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov cocktails;** Whereas Mohammed Sabry Soliman stated he planned the terrorist attack for more than a year, wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead'', and would ``do it [conduct an attack] again''; Whereas the terrorist attack committed by Mohammed Sabry Soliman wounded at least 14 people who suffered burns and other injuries; Whereas, reportedly, at least one of the victims was a Holocaust survivor; Whereas Mohammed Sabry Soliman was issued a tourist visa to travel to the United States; Whereas Mohammed Sabry Soliman was admitted to the United States at Los Angeles International Airport on August 27, 2022; Whereas, one month after his arrival in the United States and seemingly in violation of the terms of his nonimmigrant visa, which required that he not intend to remain in the United States permanently, Mohammed Sabry Soliman filed an asylum application with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Whereas Mohammed Sabry Soliman failed to depart the United States prior to the expiration of his authorized period of stay pursuant to his visa; Whereas the case of Mohammed Sabry Soliman highlights the need to aggressively vet aliens who apply for visas to determine whether they endorse, espouse, promote, or support antisemitic terrorism or engage in other antisemitic or anti-American activity; Whereas the case of Mohammed Sabry Soliman demonstrates the dangers of not removing from the country aliens who fail to comply with the terms of their visas; Whereas Colorado is a sanctuary State that prohibits law enforcement and other government entities from sharing information about illegal aliens with Federal immigration authorities, prevents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel from accessing certain public areas, and otherwise hinders immigration enforcement; and Whereas Colorado law enforcement officials have encountered Mohammed Sabry Soliman multiple times since 2022: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives-- (1) condemns Mohammed Sabry Soliman and his antisemitic terrorist attack on peaceful demonstrators supporting the release of the hostages held by Hamas; (2) prays for the quick healing of the victims of Mohammed Sabry Soliman's antisemitic terrorist attack; (3) affirms that free and open communication between State and local law enforcement and their Federal counterparts remains the bedrock of public safety and is necessary in preventing terrorist attacks; and (4) expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/485/text/ih?format=txt

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ermagerd, the courts struck down our law as completely contravening freedom of speech! The courts must be abolished!

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Maybe they should review the First Amendment first.

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'll go a step further. Restore East Palestine to its rightful owners.

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