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Will a NATO country classify the term "From the river to the sea" as hate speech by mid-2024?
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The resolution condition for this would be that demonstrators or protestors are charged with hate speech on the sole premise of using the phrase, in any NATO country, or that a NATO country makes it clear that it is classified as hate speech and may alone result in a prosecution.

Evidence of this must be posted in the comments, or found with basic research online by myself.

Recently a member of the US congress was censured for using the term: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2023/11/08/rashida-tlaib-anti-semitism-israel-house-censure/

A british labour member of parliament was suspended for using the term in parliament:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/from-the-river-to-the-sea-where-does-the-slogan-come-from-and-what-does-it-mean-israel-palestine

And elon musk banned the term from twitter, saying it 'calls for genocide': https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/musk-from-the-river-to-the-sea-twitter-suspension-1234886216/

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https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/1699528989-berlin-criminalizes-slogan-from-the-river-to-the-sea-palestine-will-be-free

Resolves yes I think, since Berlin is a region of a NATO country, and the prompt doesn't say it has to be banned in a whole country.

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@anon @LukeShadwell What are your thoughts here?

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@anon Very possible let me look into it one se

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@anon I believe this counts, anywhere in nato

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@LukeShadwell actions relating to a country can only apply to national government. If you said "any government" then it could apply to the smallest levels.

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@mec It’s still under criminal prosecution within a nato country, under a law of the country as a whole, just classified as part of that law within that area

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