Murad's Story. C/C the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/magazine/israel-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk4.5TdE.fjHXN4IDLZ3M&smid=url-share
Nareman Shehadeh Zoabi, a lawyer at Adalah, told me that since Oct. 7, “you can’t express a Palestinian identity and not be linked to Hamas. And if you’re not fully on the Israeli side, you’re a legitimate target.”
Excerpt:
Israel first criminalized incitement to terrorism in 2002, for reasons that now seem unthinkable. Lawmakers believed — as many Israelis did — that they needed to rein in ultranationalist Jews. In 1995, the climate of incitement against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin led directly to his assassination by a Jewish extremist. Israel’s laws about speech were then a mishmash of antiquated statutes, some of which came from the British Mandate period. When the courts failed to clarify things, the Knesset decided to step in. Incitement entered the penal code.
“We’re not doing that,” she said. “We don’t swap Israeli citizens.” The state was abandoning its precedents at such a rapid clip that even a legislator who supported the counterterror law could not keep up.
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