Georgia leaders voice concern over antisemitic demonstrations outside 2 synagogues

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Georgia leaders voice concern over antisemitic demonstrations outside 2 synagogues

By Raja Razek, CNN
Published 6:44 PM EDT, Sun June 25, 2023

(CNN) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and other state leaders have spoken out against bigotry and hate after antisemitic demonstrations took place outside two synagogues in the state this weekend.

Groups were observed yelling antisemitic messages outside a Macon temple Friday night and displaying swastikas and signs with neo-Nazi messages outside a Cobb County synagogue on Saturday.

Antisemitic flyers were also discovered in at least one central Georgia community.

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a civil rights non-governmental organization, condemned the incidents as a “stunt” by an antisemitic network focused on spreading hate and provoking division.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/25/us/georgia-antisemitic-demonstrations-synagogues/index.html

[Old Crank]

1. Shocked, shocked!

That he says this has no place in the US. After 4 decades of hate being spewed from GOP lips at every level. At hate being spewed from lips of their Christian supporters.

Do something Kemp! Condemn every vile utterance from your party members. Get laws in place to protect minority groups instead of leading the charge to crush them.

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. Charge them with harassment

Make restraining orders keeping them a mile or more from who they were targeting.

Also, swastikas are not free speech, they are hate speech and against our democracy. I don't think that speech was meant to be constitutionally protected IMO.

[Old Crank]

4. There was a case in Illinois?

that went to the Supreme Court. It said that nzis could parade around.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Here we go again.

This is protected free speech. Police arresting them for bigoted speech would violate me.

Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America (Ill)

Link to tweet

[wnylib]

3. The ACLU calls it a stunt?

I can think of other words. Intimidation and threats for starters.

[Old Crank]

5. Settled law

See this case from 1977.

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/e-lessons/skokie-and-brandenburg

Much as I hate these people our courts have said it is free speech.

[wnylib]

6. It's also intimidating and threatening speech.

[GoneOffShore]

7. And the both ACLU and the courts got it wrong in that instance as I said elsewhere.

[Old Crank]

11. That may be true

But good luck changing the law with the Roberts bought and paid for Taliban court.

[GoneOffShore]

12. You're not wrong.

[EddieOnTheMesa]

9. Red States

AKA, Hate States and we all know it.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. You're right. This would never happen anywhere other than a red state.

The Soiling of Old Glory



The Soiling of Old Glory, by Stanley Forman

The Soiling of Old Glory is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken by Stanley Forman during the Boston busing crisis in 1976. It depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaulting a black man—lawyer and civil rights activist Ted Landsmark—with a flagpole bearing the American flag (also known as Old Glory).

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