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The real jihad-chant scandal

Tom Slater on the grotesque double standards of Britain’s speech police.

Topics Free Speech Identity Politics Polemics UK

Misgendering someone. Retweeting an anti-woke meme. Saying a cop resembles your lesbian grandmother. Brits have been arrested, some even prosecuted, for these supposed speech crimes and many more in recent years. And yet, last Saturday, pro-Hamas protesters were allowed to call for jihad on the streets of London. Here, Tom Slater exposes the grotesque double standards of the speech police, while arguing that we need more free speech, not less, to defeat the scourge of Islamist anti-Semitism.

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Topics Free Speech Identity Politics Polemics UK

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