By this standard, Jews who quote Torah will also have to be banned. By this standard, much of Torah, the Jewish tradition and the Jewish prayer book would have to be banned for hate speech.
Many Jews have used the hashtag “Kahane Was Right.” Should they now be banned? Any Jew who accepts the Torah accepts that God was right in ordering the genocide of the Seven Nations of Canaan? How is that any different from anyone who says Hitler was right? Which genocides are moral and which are immoral? They’re moral if God tells us to do it but they are immoral when they are carried out against us?
Millions of Jews pray the Aleinu, which reads, “For they worship vanity and emptiness…” Is that not hate speech?
Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, has shown his true colors as an enemy of free speech. He is willing to invoke the recent massacres in France for the crudest suppression of basic liberties.
Chaim Amalek: “I think as Jews we should set an example for hate avoidance, beginning with a careful review of any teachings in our Torah that might give offense. For starters, we should excise any negative reference to an Amalekite from the bible (Jewish and Christian). Condemn the individual, and not the group to which the individual belongs.”
“NO true Torah Jew can be in favor of this drive to ban so-called ‘hate’ speech. Just think of what our enemies might do with such a law in place when we try to teach the kinder how best to deal with Amalek, or when we instruct them in the terrible fate engulfed the first born sons of Egypt during ‘Exodus’ etc. No, if we are to have such laws, there must be exceptions for those who wish to teach Torah to their young.”
BBC: Social media users who spread racial hatred should be banned from sites such as Twitter and Facebook, MPs say.
The All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into anti-Semitism wants prosecutors to examine whether prevention orders like those used to restrict sex offenders’ internet access could be used.
The cross-party group also highlighted the use of anti-Semitic terms online.
Their report said the terms “Hitler” and “Holocaust” were among the top 35 phrases relating to Jews during the conflict.
The hashtags “Hitler” and “genocide” featured with “high frequency”, it added. The “Hitler Was Right” hashtag trended worldwide in July 2014…
Prime Minister David Cameron called the report “hugely important”, adding that tackling anti-Semitism went “right to the heart of what we stand for as a country”.
Community Secretary Eric Pickles added: “We remain staunchly committed to tackling anti-Semitism wherever it occurs and will continue to take a zero-tolerance approach.”
And Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis welcomed the timing of the report, which he said came when the “threat against the Jewish community is real and anxiety remains high following recent events”.
