The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan
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The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”
If anybody votes against this, they’ll say they voted to support Colorado terrorist attack.
Update (from comments): A Nitter link to the Ryan Grim tweet in the screenshot:
https://
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#USpol #FreePalestine #Genocide #Israel #Antisemitism #Fascism
#Palestine @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
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That's fucked up and unconstitutional (not that it matters to Trumo and co) but I will say it FREE PALESTINE!!! and for good measure FUCK ISRAEL FUCKING NAZIS.
Now I am going go touch some grass, I am done with these fucking racist fascist.
silly leftists, free speech is for racists
Old Soviet Joke.
Two agents meet in a bar in Germany on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The CIA agent says to the KGB agent, "Why do you continue to support the Soviet Union? You have no freedom in your country. Come to the United States. In our country, we can criticize our leaders. I can say 'Death to Ronald Reagan' and nobody will stop me."
The KGB agent shakes his head, smiling. "Why would I want to travel all the way to America in order to say that? In Moscow, we also say 'Death to Ronald Reagan' whenever we please."
Another one: A CIA agent and a KGB agent meet at a bar after talking for a while the KGB agent says to the CIA agent „You know one thing we really admire back in the USSR is your propaganda it’s really top notch“ the CIA agent looks confused and asks, „What propaganda?“
Palestinian people are semetic.
Semetic does not exclusively mean Jewish.
In b4 someone brings scientific racism definitions of "semitic" thinking it's a good argument to agree with Nazis
Congress can deem whatever they want, I'm gonna keep saying Free Palestine until Palestine is free.
As someone who is Jewish this is insanity.
I SAY DEATH TO THE FASCISTS AND THE ZIONIST TYRANTS, I WANT NO MORE OF THE LIES
DEATH TO THE TYRANTS
DEATH TO REACTION
DEATH TO DECEIT
I'm Jewish, technically Israeli. and after what I witnessed in my years there:
FREE PALESTINE
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA
DEATH TO APARTHEID
I have visted the occupation, in my time there I saw inhuman evils and indescribable horrors
DEATH TO OCCUPATION
DEATH COLONIALISM
DEATH TO GENOCIDE
Getting it out while I still can: Free Palestine!
so a slogan, that involves a semitic country with actual semitic roots, is antisemitic? Can't make this shit up.
Do it, im gonna keep saying "Free Palestine!" regardless... these asshats are just trying to distract from their other shitty policies with this.
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what about speech they don't like?
Palestine will be free!
Fuck fascists.
This passes and those shitweasels will declare BLM is "an antiwhite slogan" and move to ban it the same way. Then test the waters for other things, like calling Yam Tits "Yam Tits"... Right to jail.
Guarantee this is what they're going for. Systematically destroying our freedoms.
🖕🤬🖕
Double plus bad
It would be doubleplusungood, negative words like "bad" were discouraged
Lol land of free speech
Free speech protections are still in place, and this is why they are important. This resolution can't prevent people from saying it, just signals that the current house of representatives wants to.
Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests. Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne
I'm not saying they couldn't be stronger. There is a huge problem with abusing deportations this way, and other forms of legislating speech by enforcement. But please consider how much worse things can get, and what barriers still remain between here and there. That it isn't a crime to say "Free Palestine", that it isn't a simple matter of declaring it a racist slogan to make it a crime, does mean something.
The barriers are largely logistical. And I believe Trump's allies in Silicon Valley are closing the gap between what they want and what they can practically achieve.
If you can be targeted, arrested, and deported for doing a thing, it is a crime in every way that matters.
I guess its nice they didn't subject him to torture, indefinite detention, or summary execution. But given how many people are being sent to international black sites and concentration camps, that's hardly a given.
The question isn't whether things can get worse. The question is whether there are any avenues left for things to get better. I'm increasingly pessimistic, given the current state of play.
To the extent that this does not apply to citizens at scale, there are many more people who are not effectively silenced. If they pass laws that are upheld and able to effectively silence everyone, that would be objectively a big step towards crushing dissent. There are relatively recent laws by conservative states attempting to regulate social media that have been blocked for 1st Amendment reasons. I don't see a reason to consider the legal barriers useless, they pretty clearly matter a lot here.
We're here, on a network not controlled by those companies. Free speech protections are a big part of what makes that possible.
Peaceful protests are being quashed by the literal US military/national guard. There are videos of police specifically targeting people with signs/flags they don't like with "less lethals".
Before that campus protests calling for an end to genocide were quashed by local police.
People who attend either of these protests are being jailed and/or deported.
"Free speech" is a myth.
Double down on that genocide, bitches, and the news/public will track the names of the ones that do.
Nah, the news won’t do that. They’re all owned by oligarchs who are responsible for the current state of the world. Corporate news is not on our side.
No one is coming to save us, we have to do it ourselves.
GOP Rep Introduces Resolution Labeling ‘Free Palestine’ Slogan as ‘Anti-Semitism’ - Activist Post (2025-06-15)
activistpost.com/gop-rep-intro
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>> Colorado GOP Congressman Gabe Evans introduced a non-binding resolution on Friday that labels ‘Free Palestine’ as “an antisemitic slogan.” The bill seeks to limit immigration of people who oppose Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and Tel Aviv’s genocidal onslaught in the besieged Gaza Strip. The bill is expected to be voted on some time next week.
The bill reads, “Whereas, while shouting ‘Free Palestine,’ an antisemitic slogan that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and Jewish people, Mohammed Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov cocktails.”
Resolution (PDF) link:
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:
#USPol #FakeAntisemitism #FreePalestine
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
"That's a funny way to spell "destroy Israel""
Insanity
How many wars and genocides does Israel have to be involved in before "Destroy Israel" becomes a more popular slogan?
Nobody seems shy about saying "Destroy Russia" or "Break up China" or even "Invade Mexico". Hell, nobody seems shy about saying "Nuke Iran". Beginning to think there might be some kind of regional political bias to which countries we're allowed to fantasize about demolishing.
Yeah obviously any countries the old white people hate are oltologivally evil and we can go explode them but if they like them then it's illegal to disagree. I love living in such a free country
Land of the REEEEE
@faab64 @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
A Nitter link to the Ryan Grim tweet in the screenshot: xcancel.com/ryangrim/status/19
@jmcnaughton @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
Oh thanks. I update it
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If I’m not mistaken, these resolutions don’t have the force of law. Basically it’s just a glorified memo.
Designed to get people upset with dem reps that vote for it. They’ll get heat either way they vote, so the right call is to abstain. Though that would still inspire ire from the right, but whatevs.
It's not a "complete lie". We should be willing to fact check, but we must also be mindful not rush to jump to such harsh dismissals.
I don't know the reason for the discrepancy, but this is specifically from Congress.Gov House res. 485.
"Whereas, while shouting ``Free Palestine'', an antisemitic slogan that calls for
the destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people, Mohammed
Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov
cocktails;"
Full text and link below.
Whereas, on June 1, 2025, Mohammed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national illegally
in the United States, committed a terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado,
against marchers peacefully demonstrating in support of the release of
hostages held captive by Hamas;
**Whereas, while shouting
Free Palestine'', an antisemitic slogan that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people, Mohammed Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov cocktails;** Whereas Mohammed Sabry Soliman stated he planned the terrorist attack for more than a year,wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they wereall dead'', and would ``do it [conduct an attack] again'';
Whereas the terrorist attack committed by Mohammed Sabry Soliman wounded at
least 14 people who suffered burns and other injuries;
Whereas, reportedly, at least one of the victims was a Holocaust survivor;
Whereas Mohammed Sabry Soliman was issued a tourist visa to travel to the United
States;
Whereas Mohammed Sabry Soliman was admitted to the United States at Los Angeles
International Airport on August 27, 2022;
Whereas, one month after his arrival in the United States and seemingly in
violation of the terms of his nonimmigrant visa, which required that he
not intend to remain in the United States permanently, Mohammed Sabry
Soliman filed an asylum application with U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services;
Whereas Mohammed Sabry Soliman failed to depart the United States prior to the
expiration of his authorized period of stay pursuant to his visa;
Whereas the case of Mohammed Sabry Soliman highlights the need to aggressively
vet aliens who apply for visas to determine whether they endorse,
espouse, promote, or support antisemitic terrorism or engage in other
antisemitic or anti-American activity;
Whereas the case of Mohammed Sabry Soliman demonstrates the dangers of not
removing from the country aliens who fail to comply with the terms of
their visas;
Whereas Colorado is a sanctuary State that prohibits law enforcement and other
government entities from sharing information about illegal aliens with
Federal immigration authorities, prevents U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement personnel from accessing certain public areas, and otherwise
hinders immigration enforcement; and
Whereas Colorado law enforcement officials have encountered Mohammed Sabry
Soliman multiple times since 2022: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) condemns Mohammed Sabry Soliman and his antisemitic
terrorist attack on peaceful demonstrators supporting the
release of the hostages held by Hamas;
(2) prays for the quick healing of the victims of Mohammed
Sabry Soliman's antisemitic terrorist attack;
(3) affirms that free and open communication between State
and local law enforcement and their Federal counterparts
remains the bedrock of public safety and is necessary in
preventing terrorist attacks; and
(4) expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers,
including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel,
for protecting the homeland.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/485/text/ih?format=txt
Thank you for doing the legwork comrade.
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Deep... siggggh.
It's worth noting that they found either Newer or outdated information.
From my own search, direcly from the Congress.Gov page on HR485.
"Whereas, while shouting ``Free Palestine'', an antisemitic slogan that calls for
the destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people, Mohammed
Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov
cocktails;"
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/485/text/ih?format=txt
Ermagerd, the courts struck down our law as completely contravening freedom of speech! The courts must be abolished!
Maybe they should review the First Amendment first.
Gabe Evans is a fucking loser that barely won that district... but read this thing. Don't just take the headline at face-value, cause that's also wrong.
Read the fucking thing. Here it is again: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:d2810458-ed0c-4ba8-9bb6-185c18b7c95c?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover
Again, fuck Gabe Evans but this headline is sensationalist bullshit. Read the thing.
For the lazy:
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) condemns Mohammed Sabry Soliman and his antisemitic
terrorist attack on peaceful demonstrators supporting the
release of the hostages held by Hamas;
(2) prays for the quick healing of the victims of Mohammed
Sabry Soliman's antisemitic terrorist attack;
(3) affirms that free and open communication between State
and local law enforcement and their Federal counterparts
remains the bedrock of public safety and is necessary in
preventing terrorist attacks; and
(4) expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers,
including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel,
for protecting the homeland.
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This is embarrassing, but i don't know how resolutions work and I was looking at the same thing and scratching my head.
Is it that along with resolution 1, you area agreeing to the second paragraph here:
So it's this a "therefore" situation or a wrong headline and interpretation from news agencies? I have no idea.
I was going off this: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/485/text/ih?format=txt

I realize how my post can be a bit misleading now. I put up a link to his rough draft, and the one that's in Congress doesn't actually resolve shit.
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Restore all Palestine