Rosa Lund and Pelle Dragsted from Denmark’s Red-Greens has sent in a silly letter. I will not print it but instead give a short summary of it.

The letter comes in a response to an article in the daily Arbejderen, in which reports on the succdem-led right-wing regime’s plans to use hate speech laws to criminalise the pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide movement under the guise of fighting “the new antisemitism”. I have posted about this earlier.

These are the points made by the two:

• The proposed legislation does not seek to criminalise the pro-Palestinian movement, if it did more people would be mad about it and the Red-Greens wouldn’t support it.
• The law only covers hate speech and you can say all sorts of things without it being hate speech, just look at all the shit Nazis get away with saying in public. (The law being blind on the right eye? Not in my epic librul democracy)
• Saying “from the river to the sea” will not be criminalised. It is the courts and not the police who decides what constitutes “hate speech” and the courts has not yet ruled on that phrase. (The courts hasn’t decided it yet, well then we’re safe. We know how critical they are towards political signals and the police)
• It is not true that the law attempts to define “contempt for the ‘state of Israel’” as antisemitism. The official definition remains that of the IHRA (rabid zionist organisation that includes anti-zionism in its definition of antisemitism). The only thing that changes with the proposal is that funding will be provided for research in “antisemitism rooted in contempt for the 'state of Israel”, doing so exactly the same as funding research into islamophobia rooted in contempt for the Iranian state (something they would never do).
• The constitution and the European convention on human rights protects freeze peach so the state actually can’t ban criticism of any country even if they wanted to. (The ECHR also applies in Germany btw, a country famous for allowing anti-zionist speech)
• It is not true that the proposal will empower police to order operators of websites to remove “terrorist-related” material within 60 minutes without first obtaining a court order. They can already do that and the proposal just removes the time limit. These rules are there because the EU says so (and then we can’t talk about whether it’s a good idea?). And don’t worry, the police will have to ask the courts for permission afterwards (our wonderful courts who always applies pure impartial justice and are highly critical of the security state). And the police has never used those powers before (so they won’t use them in the future?).

This, ladies, enbies and gentlemen, is what passes for far left thought in the west.