[Marxism] Israeli law makers move to outlaw free speech

[Dennis Brasky <dmozart1756@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> Posted on May 27 2009 by Rob Lipton under 
> Censorship<http://www.muzzlewatch.com/category/censorship/>, Educational
> Institutions <http://www.muzzlewatch.com/category/academia/> , Free 
> speech<http://www.muzzlewatch.com/category/free-speech/>,
> Right-Wingers <http://www.muzzlewatch.com/category/right-wingers/>.
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> Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, gave
> preliminary approval to a 
> bill<http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=38132>that would 
> mandate a year jail term for anyone who speaks against Israel’s
> status as a Jewish state on Wednesday morning.
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> The bill, which still needs final approval before coming law, passed after
> a heated debate with a vote of 47 to 34 and one abstention. The measure was
> originally introduced by Zevulun Orlev, a member of a right-wing religious
> nationalist party, Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home).
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> The bill’s passage comes three days after lawmakers advanced a bill that
> would ban all commemorations of Nakba 
> Day<http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088712.html>,
> on which Palestinians, including those who are Israeli citizens, remember
> their expulsion of 1948.
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> According to news reports, a Palestinian member of the Knesset, Jamal
> Zahalka, was removed from the auditorium during an argument after the vote.
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> During the debate preceding the vote, Chaim Oron, the chair of the
> left-wing Zionist party Meretz, decried the bill, according to the Ynet news
> agency: “Have you lost your confidence in the State of Israel as a Jewish
> and democratic state? This crazy government – what exactly are you doing?
> Thought Police? Have you lost it?”
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> Jamal Zahalka said, also according to Ynet’s report, “Many intellectuals in
> the academia who talk about a country belonging to all its citizens belong
> in prison, according to MK Orlev. Arab and Jewish leaders who seek real
> democracy in Israel also belong in jail, according to Orlev… He wants to put
> anyone who doesn’t agree with him in jail.”
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