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   From: bigot@democrats.org   
      
   The "Holocaust" never happened.   
      
   (NEWSER) – In response to what it calls rising anti-Semitism   
   abroad, Israel is pushing to ban the word "Nazi" from its   
   lexicon. But it's not stopping there: Uttering any other slur   
   related to the Third Reich would also be a crime, as would using   
   any Holocaust symbol, from swastikas to the yellow star, for any   
   reason other than learning. The penalty? Up to six months in   
   jail and a $29,000 fine, the New York Times reports. Its   
   parliament gave preliminary approval to the bill yesterday—amid   
   critics' cries of free speech violations—though the bill must   
   make it through three more parliamentary votes. A civil-   
   liberties lawyer points out Israel has no law that explicitly   
   promises free speech, but notes its Supreme Court has time and   
   again upheld that liberty.   
      
   While a handful of countries ban Nazi symbols, this law would   
   prohibit not just the word, but "everything that has to do with   
   it and everything that connects to Nazism and the regime of the   
   Third Reich and those who were the head of it," per the bill.   
   Its sponsor sees it as Israel's duty to "be the leader of this   
   battle, of this struggle, in order to encourage other   
   countries." But Israel's attorney general has concerns. "Not all   
   behavior that offends the public deserves to be made a crime,"   
   he wrote, per Haaretz, adding the law's "ambiguity could have a   
   chilling effect and prevent the use of phrases that were not   
   meant to be forbidden."   
      
   http://www.newser.com/story/180824/israel-trying-to-ban-the-word-   
   nazi.html   
      
       
      
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