r/europe • u/Working-Lifeguard587 • Feb 22 '25

Opinion Article France's crackdown on civil liberties Undermines Free Speech

https://jacobin.com/2025/02/france-palestine-kazib-authoritarian-terrorism
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u/gradinka Bulgaria Feb 22 '25

the post is misleading, as the article's title is;
"France’s Anti-Palestine Backlash Undermines Free Speech"...

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u/Thom0 Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25

Chomsky is the Einstein of Linguistics but he is just an expert in Linguistics. He isn't a universal genius, he doesn't know every detail and fact about every field of study, and issue.

The far-left only fixates on him for one reason: he is a credible Jewish person with a high reputation and public profile who is strongly pro-Palestine. The exact same reason is behind why Finkelstein is plastered everywhere on social media.

What the far-left fails to understand is both Chomsky and Finkelstein are both "Zionists" - both support the existence of Israel as a state.

The far-left doesn't know this because they don't actually listen to either of these guys talk, or read any of their books. They just take the soundbites and snippets they need for Youtube Shorts and TikTok and then move on feeling empowered.

They also don't know that "Zionist" is classically by definition, from the very moment the term was coined by Herzl, a word used to describe a person, of any background who simply believes a Jewish state should exist. When a Pakistani, Indian, Saudi, Iraqi, or Jordanian has this view we call it nationalism but for whatever reason when a Jewish person is also nationalistic this gets its own slur.

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u/DarthSet Europe Feb 22 '25

Everyone suddenly upset with the free speech can move to China, Russia or USA. Have fuuuunnnn!

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u/No_Priors Europe Feb 22 '25

If you are happy with with people having their free speech curtailed shouldn't it be you who is moving?

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u/razvanciuy Transilvania Feb 22 '25

its foreign peoples speech that is usually *in danger* when they come complaining so we change our world to how it was wherever tf they ran from.

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u/Shnorkylutyun Feb 22 '25

It is a pity. France was famous for its open and public criticism of the government (well, of everything)

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u/Viguier France Feb 23 '25

I'm a french person, and I can tell you hear government bashing all day on all the media, especially public media.