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US anti-Semitism envoy opposes legal silencing of hate speech
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe top US official combating anti-Semitism says he does not counsel any restrictions on speech in his interactions with foreign officials.
“In our interactions with other governments and civil society outside the United States we make very clear that we support freedom of speech and assembly and oppose criminalizing speech – even the most odious forms of anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred,” Ira Forman, the State Department’s special envoy to combat and monitor anti-Semitism, said in an Aug. 10 letter to Jewish Voice for Peace.
Forman was replying to the group after it said that the State Department definition of anti-Semitism, which is used to deal with foreign officials, inhibits free speech on US campuses.
— JTA
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