Free speech

Proposed antisemitism laws in France, Italy stir free speech debate

Critics of the laws, including academics and left-wing politicians, allege that they will censor pro-Palestine activism and contribute to conflating Jews with the state of Israel

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Banners and Palestinian flags are displayed as people attend an anti-Israel protest amid the Israel-Hamas war, in Paris, France July 31, 2025.
A PERSON wearing a rainbow mask is seen during the Brooklyn Liberation's Protect Trans Youth event in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, June 13, 2021.

US Supreme Court rejects Colorado's ban on LGBT 'conversion' talk therapy

The 8-1 ruling, authored by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, rejected Colorado's argument that its law regulated professional conduct, not protected speech.

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Paivi Rasanen (R), member of the Finnish Parliament, testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2026.

Finland's Supreme Court fines MP for calling homosexuality 'developmental disorder'

The court found Paivi Rasanen guilty of incitement against a group by claiming on social media and on her website that it was scientifically proven that homosexuality was a developmental disorder.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attends the executive order signing ceremony to reduce the size and scope of the Education Department in the East Room of the White House on March 20, 2025 in Washington, DC.

A-G Ken Paxton moves to defend Texas’s designation of CAIR as a terrorist organization

"Radical Islamist terrorist groups are anti-American, and the infiltration of these dangerous individuals into Texas must be stopped," said Texas A-G regarding terrorist org. CAIR.

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A Florida bill banning ‘ethnic intimidation’ flyers aims to stop the state’s neo-Nazi rise

Hate groups’ activity has been rising in Florida for several years, according to a 2022 report by the Anti-Defamation League

MARCH 18, 2023ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Demonstrators hold antisemitic symbols and signs as they protest outside the Tampa Convention Center, where Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit was being held, in Tampa, Florida on July 23, 2022.

Twitter launches new policy against violent speech

Twitter stresses that its platform should be used for civil discussion and that cannot happen when discourse that promotes violence spreads on its site.

MARCH 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Twitter app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022

Reporters from independent Egyptian news outlet referred to trial

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders ranks Egypt 168th out of 180 countries surveyed in its press freedom index

FEBRUARY 28, 2023ByREUTERS
Cairo University students shout slogans against the government after the verdict of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's trial

SCOTUS refused to rule about anti-BDS laws and free speech. Here’s why - interview

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib accused the Supreme Court of being far right for not hearing the case and ruling on the side of the BDS.

FEBRUARY 23, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS take part in a demonstration against Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip, in Ottawa.

Israeli university lecturers should not push their politics - opinion

Administrations at universities in Israel have created a closed narrative on judicial reform by actively promoting protests against the government.

FEBRUARY 23, 2023ByARI Z. ZIVOTOFSKY
Tens of thousands of Israelis protests the government's judicial reform in Tel Aviv's Habima Square seen in this drone footage taken January 14, 2023

US Supreme Court convenes on petitions against anti-BDS laws

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Times in 2018. In 2019 the case was dismissed by the district court.

FEBRUARY 16, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
An anti-Israeli protest inspired by BDS

Russian system to scan internet for undesired content and dissent

Fines will be imposed for those sharing "LGBT propaganda," or share anti-Russian speech

FEBRUARY 13, 2023ByREUTERS
PUTIN IS not Hitler and treating him like Hitler is a risk, says the writer.

Deplatforming extremists is an effective way to fight hate online - ADL

Organizations that are deplatformed may never recover their audience, a report by the Anti-Defamation League revealed.

FEBRUARY 8, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
American white nationalists march at the University of Virginia ahead of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11, 2017. In Charlottesville, antisemitic marchers shouted, 'Jews won’t replace us'

Israel's gov't planning to restrict protests with heavy fines, easier arrests - report

Police will be able to heavily fine protesters if they "disobey police instructions" or do not agree to leave the area.

JANUARY 19, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Tens of thousands of Israelis protest the government's judicial reform in Tel Aviv's Habima Square seen in this drone footage taken January 14, 2023

Itamar Ben-Gvir outlaws Palestinian flags in public spaces

PM Netanyahu earlier accused anti-government demonstrators of incitement, taking issue with the flying of Palestinian flags.

JANUARY 9, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Palestinian flag on sign reading "justice for all from the Jordan to the sea" at anti-Netanyahu protest in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2023