I’m like 90% sure that the recent announcement by the government is that the specific part of the law Professor Twomey covers in this video is no longer proceeding.
Which, if its current form were all that mattered, would be undoubtedly a good thing.
But I’d have liked to see an attempt at making the spirit of this law work, without the risk of criticising genocidal regimes being caught up in it.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
The most salient point might be that the way it’s currently worded, pointing out that Israel is committing genocide could get you in trouble with this new law (and truth is not a defence) because your statements could reasonably cause hatred towards Israelis.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Israelis are not a race though, they’re just citizens of a country.
So it would not be able to be classified as ‘racial hatred’ and then they would have to pivot to charging that you’re inciting hatred against Jews, which would be much easier to defend. Protesting against Israel is not protesting against Jews - in fact there are a lot of Jews that protest against Israel.
eureka@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
The new laws include “nationality”.
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BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
You should probably have actually watched the video
itsathursday@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
What are facts and common sense but things that are to be debated and enforced with the rule of law, after all, people feelings are getting hurt by the truth so we have to make it less obvious otherwise these people might look bad.