Europe allows anti-Semitic TV
Transatlantic Institute of the American Jewish Committee
European nations allow the broadcasting of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages over Arab satellite television stations, a report released by a Jewish group concluded.
Arab satellite TV in Europe broadcasts “racist, anti-Semitic, revisionist, jihadist and sexist messages, and which often call for the destruction of the State of Israel,” said the report, released Nov. 17 by the Brussels-based Transatlantic Institute of the American Jewish Committee.
Commissioned by the Transatlantic Institute, the research was conducted by Proche-Orient.info, a France-based online magazine on Israel and the Middle East. While the broadcasting of messages such as these are protected in the United States as free speech, Roberta Bonazzi, director of the European Foundation for Democracy, said that the legal situation in Europe is different: “There are laws against hate speech, and those are being broken.”
The report urges the European Commission to set up a European agency that could monitor hate speech on non-European television stations available in Europe via satellite, and that would have the power to deal with those stations if necessary.
European nations allow the broadcasting of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages over Arab satellite television stations, a report released by a Jewish group concluded.
Arab satellite TV in Europe broadcasts “racist, anti-Semitic, revisionist, jihadist and sexist messages, and which often call for the destruction of the State of Israel,” said the report, released Nov. 17 by the Brussels-based Transatlantic Institute of the American Jewish Committee.
Commissioned by the Transatlantic Institute, the research was conducted by Proche-Orient.info, a France-based online magazine on Israel and the Middle East. While the broadcasting of messages such as these are protected in the United States as free speech, Roberta Bonazzi, director of the European Foundation for Democracy, said that the legal situation in Europe is different: “There are laws against hate speech, and those are being broken.”
The report urges the European Commission to set up a European agency that could monitor hate speech on non-European television stations available in Europe via satellite, and that would have the power to deal with those stations if necessary.
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