{"id":4852,"date":"2020-11-11T21:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2020-11-11T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:14:54","slug":"jewish-lobby-in-scotland-wants-to-see-dissidents-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4852","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Lobby in Scotland Wants to See Dissidents Jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jewish Leader in Scotland Warns Amended Hate Crimes Bill Could Protect Holocaust Deniers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/author\/algemeiner-staff\"> by Algemeiner Staff<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/holocaust-denial.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-494748\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamist\n demonstrators displaying a Holocaust denial sign (illustrative). Photo:\n Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A two-word modification in a hate crimes bill currently being \ndiscussed by Scotland\u2019s parliament could provide a \u201cget out of jail free\n card\u201d for Holocaust deniers, a Scottish Jewish leader warned on \nTuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ephraim Borowski \u2014 director of the Scottish Council of Jewish \nCommunities (SCoJeC) \u2014 was responding to Scottish Justice Secretary \nHamza Yousaf\u2019s amendment of the proposed legislation that would raise \nthe threshold from \u201clikely\u201d to stir up hatred to \u201cintend only.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Borowski cautioned that such a change could give protection to Holocaust deniers on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think that the amendment that was announced by the Cabinet \nSecretary is retrograde, it essentially provides a get out of jail free \ncard for something that you\u2019ll see very often in hate-filled posts on \nthe internet,\u201d Borowski <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/18860929.holocaust-deniers-potentially-given-defence-hate-crime-u-turn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> Scottish news outlet <em>The Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey are now given a get out of jail free card, because they could \njust say \u2018oh we didn\u2019t intend to cause offense, we were merely asking a \nquestion about whether the Holocaust happened,&#8217;\u201d Borowski explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately antisemitism is very much on the rise these days and I\n take the view, therefore, that it\u2019s the victim who needs protecting,\u201d \nhe continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Tomkins \u2014 a member of the Scottish parliament and the convener \nof its justice committee \u2014 said that Borowski\u2019s comments were from \n\u201cquite a different perspective\u201d to the other evidence they had heard \nover the past weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish Leader in Scotland Warns Amended Hate Crimes Bill Could Protect Holocaust Deniers by Algemeiner Staff Islamist demonstrators displaying a Holocaust denial sign (illustrative). Photo: Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A two-word modification in a hate crimes bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2553,2555,2098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}