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Eugene

(62,748 posts)
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 03:49 AM Jun 2023

Georgia leaders voice concern over antisemitic demonstrations outside 2 synagogues

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

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Georgia leaders voice concern over antisemitic demonstrations outside 2 synagogues (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2023 OP
Shocked, shocked! Old Crank Jun 2023 #1
Charge them with harassment SouthernDem4ever Jun 2023 #2
There was a case in Illinois? Old Crank Jun 2023 #4
Here we go again. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 #8
The ACLU calls it a stunt? wnylib Jun 2023 #3
Settled law Old Crank Jun 2023 #5
It's also intimidating and threatening speech. wnylib Jun 2023 #6
And the both ACLU and the courts got it wrong in that instance as I said elsewhere. GoneOffShore Jun 2023 #7
That may be true Old Crank Jun 2023 #11
You're not wrong. GoneOffShore Jun 2023 #12
Red States EddieOnTheMesa Jun 2023 #9
You're right. This would never happen anywhere other than a red state. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 #10

Old Crank

(4,851 posts)
1. Shocked, shocked!
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 04:53 AM
Jun 2023

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

(6,618 posts)
2. Charge them with harassment
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 05:35 AM
Jun 2023

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

(4,851 posts)
4. There was a case in Illinois?
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 06:08 AM
Jun 2023

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

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,437 posts)
8. Here we go again.
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 06:29 AM
Jun 2023
This is protected free speech. Police arresting them for bigoted speech would violate me.

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


wnylib

(24,625 posts)
3. The ACLU calls it a stunt?
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 05:35 AM
Jun 2023

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

Old Crank

(4,851 posts)
11. That may be true
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 08:15 AM
Jun 2023

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

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,437 posts)
10. You're right. This would never happen anywhere other than a red state.
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 06:36 AM
Jun 2023
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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