Georgia Passes Bill Making Criticizing Jews Illegal

The Georgias are having a rough week.

Soviet Georgia had to cancel a law that required Jews working for foreign governments to publicly disclose that fact, whilst in southern Georgia, it’s apparently now a law that you’re not allowed to criticize the Jews.

Why are the Jews being so aggressive in places named Georgia this week??

Jerusalem Post:

A bill officially defining antisemitism, which can be used by authorities when identifying anti-Jewish hate crime, was passed in the US state of Georgia’s General Assembly on Tuesday.

House Bill (HB) 30 passed 136-22 with bipartisan support. Democrat Esther Panitch, the only Jewish American representative in the state house, submitted and presented the bill with the support of several other members including Republicans like John Carson.

Panitch noted on Monday that the bill was assessed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of having a 26% chance of passing. The Jewish representative said that she would “channel my inner Queen Esther and beat the odds,” in honor of Purim.

Hmm, wonder what that means.

Guess I won’t look it up.

The law contends that antisemitism is a pervasive problem in American society that needs to be addressed, with data showing that Jews are often the religious group most targeted by hate crime. Consequently, Georgia has a responsibility to protect Jewish citizens.

Under HB 30, Georgian law enforcement will now consider antisemitism as motivation for laws that prohibit discrimination against immutable characteristics and carry enhanced penalties.

Antisemitism in Georgia will be defined along the outline of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition. The General Assembly agreed with the notion that while there was no exhaustive definition, it was an essential tool adopted by over 30 countries.

The IHRA definition defines antisemitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

The guidelines present offer examples including supporting and engaging in violence against Jews as part of an ideology. Dehumanization and demonization of Jews using stereotypes of Jewish control and power or accusing Jews as a group of the ills in society would also be considered antisemitism. Variations of Holocaust denial also fall under the definition.

Yes, this definition of “antisemitism” is one where it is an act of hatred to list off statistics about Jewish overrepresentation in institutions of power.

The autistic response here is to claim that they are not actually making criticism of Jews illegal because in order to be charged with unlawful criticism of Jews you have to have committed a real crime as well in the form of some kind of action against a Jew. However, the way this works in practice is that if a person who has been critical of Jews is charged with any crime at all, his prosecution becomes about his criticism of the Jews. That means that people who are critical of the Jews are now in a new class of people who are punished much more severely for any crime. It effectively establishes a totally separate legal system for “antisemites.”

If having a belief puts you into a new legal category where you are punished under a different set of rules, that belief is “down by law.”

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