<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The principal use of the category of ‘hate’ is to undermine the canons of free speech. So criticism of Israel can’t be defended as free speech: it is rather ‘hate speech’.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The tactic is extended across the range of identity politics. Thus criticism of homosexuality becomes ‘homophobic’ hate speech and can be suppressed as such, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 17, 2017, at 10:47 PM, David Green via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" class=""><div class=""></div>
<div class="">IMO the notion of such thing as a hate crime has always been related to the Zionist agenda, although perhaps much else. It gets back to criticisms that have evolved regarding the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Hating on hate has become a big business, and heavily politicized. Indeed the whole Matthew Shepard case has been strongly critiqued, among others. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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On Friday, November 17, 2017 06:08:40 PM, Karen Medina <<a href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com" class="">kmedina67@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">So, I guess I have two naive questions.<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">1. Does the motive of hate have to be proven? If so, how can that be proven?<br clear="none" class="">2. Is rape ever treated as a hate crime by the justice system?<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">-karen medina<div class="yqt3258386279" id="yqtfd68119"><br clear="none" class=""></div></div></div>
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