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Anti-Semitism

Donald Trump had dinner with Nick Fuentes and Ye/Kanye West.

Republican Party

Republicans Shouldn't Be Shocked at Trump's Creepy Dinner With Ye and Nick Fuentes

The GOP will get what it deserves if, as predicted, Trump burns down the party if he doesn’t get the 2024 nomination.

Steven Greenhut | 12.9.2022 8:00 AM

Is Elon Musk inviting hate speech on Twitter?

Twitter

Elon Musk Enforces Twitter's Ban on 'Hateful Conduct' As Critics Predict a Flood of Bigotry

The "free speech absolutist" is maintaining some content restrictions while loosening others.

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2022 4:40 PM

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Anti-Semitism

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick: How Closed Borders Helped Facilitate the Holocaust

A new PBS series underscores the long, deadly shadow cast by xenophobia, antisemitism, and restrictive immigration laws.

Nick Gillespie | 9.21.2022 4:45 PM

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Immigration

How Closed Borders Helped Facilitate the Holocaust

A new PBS series by Ken Burns argues xenophobia, the Great Depression, incredulity toward the media, and State Department antisemitism combined to keep Jewish refugees out of America.

Nick Gillespie | 9.15.2022 12:32 PM

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Censorship

New York's Governor Wants to 'Silence' Constitutionally Protected Speech

In response to the Buffalo massacre, Gov. Kathy Hochul invoked a hoary analogy to justify censorship.

Jacob Sullum | 5.18.2022 12:01 AM

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France

France's Authoritarian Establishment Faces Off Against the Even Uglier Authoritarianism of the Far Right

French President Emmanuel Macron is authoritarian-light. Candidate Marine Le Pen is worse.

Veronique de Rugy | 4.21.2022 2:56 PM

Free Speech

Anti-Israel Advocacy at University Doesn't Create Illegal "Hostile Environment" for Israeli Citizens or Jews

The same logic, of course, would apply to criticism of other countries and governments, such as China, Russia, the Palestinian government, and more.

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.11.2022 7:33 PM

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Hate crimes

The Verdict Against Ahmaud Arbery's Killers Highlights the Problems With Federal Hate Crime Statutes

Such laws, which allow redundant prosecutions based on defendants' bigoted beliefs, supposedly are authorized by the amendment that banned slavery.

Jacob Sullum | 2.22.2022 3:10 PM

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Hate crimes

The Men Who Killed Ahmaud Arbery Were Convicted of Murder. Now They Are on Trial for Racism.

According to a former federal prosecutor, the seemingly redundant case sends "the message that the Justice Department won't tolerate this type of racist hatred."

Jacob Sullum | 2.17.2022 4:15 PM

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Due Process

Texas Court Recommends a New Trial for a Man on Death Row, Saying the Trial Judge's Anti-Jewish Bias Violated Due Process

A district court judge found "overwhelming evidence" of Vickers Cunningham's bigotry.

Jacob Sullum | 10.14.2021 3:45 PM

Anti-Semitism

Redefining "Anti-Semitism" in the Gina Carano Controversy? Or Just Inaccurate Reporting?

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 2.11.2021 12:34 PM

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Media Criticism

The Guardian Fired Columnist Nathan Robinson After a Joke Tweet About Military Aid to Israel

The tweet was neither anti-Semitic nor "fake news."

Robby Soave | 2.10.2021 5:45 PM

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Conspiracy Theories

'School Shootings Are Absolutely Real,' and '9/11 Absolutely Happened,' Says Marjorie Taylor Greene

Under fire for endorsing wacky conspiracy theories, the Georgia representative blames the internet.

Jacob Sullum | 2.4.2021 5:50 PM

Holocaust

Volokh Conspiracy

New Survey on Public Ignorance About the Holocaust

The poll shows extensive ignorance among millenials and Generation Z, and is consistent with many previous studies showing widespread ignorance about politics and history. But one of its findings may be less bad than it looks.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.16.2020 4:38 PM

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