The House of Representatives is trying to pass a resolution making the term “Free Palestine” an official antisemitic slogan.
Republican Representative Gabe Evans from Colorado introduced the resolution in the wake of the attack on a gathering for Israeli hostages in Boulder this week. Mohammed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, has been charged for the attack, during which he yelled “Free Palestine,” according to the FBI.
“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,” the resolution reads. House Republicans are expected to vote on the nonbinding resolution next week.
Didn’t Orwell have something to say about redefining words and phrases. Well, even if he didn’t, yikes.
He sure did… Controlling language as a means of eventually controlling thought.
I always thought that part of the book seemed boring and far-fetched in my teens and 20s.
Boy was I wrong
You have been cordially invited to the Ministry of Love good citizen. A black van with blacked-out windows will be arriving soon.