Hamas is the counterpart of the State of Israel, just less "sanguinary".

This resolution is basically the assembly of California saying "we support Israel." It does absolutely nothing--it doesn't grant or withhold funds or make anything illegal--it is a non-binding resolution. It's the California Assembly's official version of a press release.

Individual states pass lots of these and they are meaningless. Here's one Idaho passed praising the movie Napolean Dynamite: http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2005/HCR029.html

While I'm all for free speech, it's not the 99% healthy, normal people that worry me. It's the micro percent who's brains see the same thought provoking discourse, but only "register" the parts that support their radical thoughts.

But, always offer a solution.... So...

New strategy: We need volunteers who will travel around the world and have unprotected sex often. In a few generations, there will not be enough difference in people to notice. Solution through transportation. Any one want to sign up and save the world?

@peternap

As you can see it is not closed, still open :-)

One of these days we'll get to a point where nobody can say anything without someone finding it offensive. Who cares if someone doesn't like someone else for whatever reason. What's the difference between disliking someone's race/religion/sex and disliking them for their tattoos/clothes/attitude? Nothing is different between them, just the emphasis we put on certain things that make us afraid.

Not to say that I agree with racism or whatnot, but it's really really blown out of proportion when people are scared of the unknown. Fix the fear, and you fix the hate. You can't make laws that ban people from doing something and expect the cause to somehow solve itself. The government does things all backwards.

Regarding your different answers ,it's also nice to see that on PV ,we have many politics streams :D in peace and lets keep it this way :D

regarding the title, this bill is a fact and i admit the second part was a speculation (VK smartly remove it) What i can propose you is to wait and see how this bill will be interpreted and used in real case...wait and see... Will this be used to protect jews students or to protect Israel foreign policy ? Regarding freedom of speech, it is not fortuity as we all know that campuses and universities are nests of intellectualization and protestations.

@EdFarnsworth ,yes like we could not let Saddam Hussein use his massive destruction weapons....i already planned a nice summer tanning my terrible white body along the euphrate... @goanna Place my post in the context of war on iran and how this bill is a brick in a wall who going to block protestations against Israel attack on Iran. Absolutly with you on tom carter, he deconstructed the bill for his own purpose as every journalist today did according to his affinity (remember how western medias deconstructed ahmadinejad speech about israel on map) i'm ok with some of his point and not ok at all with others thats why i did not rely to his post but directly to the bill, unfortunately yes i'm more in the socialist move than in the Aipac one ,sorry for that.Concerning the virus,i'm not getting you and i think you just did deconstruction of my post according to your affinities :D @Ted like in many countries , people voice is not reflecting government one, i saw and heard the same when i was there and finally where start the security of israelis and where finish the liberty of palestinians ? @brianluce true persians are really different from arabs in culture,millenium civilization ruled by laws vs nomadic pastors ruled by patriarchy, different in the way of interpreting islam but no hate for arabs except for al saud family :p ,considering nukes i'm not sure a turban would have been useful to pilot enola gay :s and finally about the good mix. god is about spirituality and what we are and politics about materiality and what we have. @TheNewDeal Dont forget to include the wind speed and direction or all your efforts could be lost to the sea,it seems to be we need more than a techie idiot :p @Mark_the_Harp I'm pretty sure you gonna find easy financing :D and dont forget to say that enginneering students have iranians origins :D

"I'm only afraid of the guy that wants just one..."

"You can't outlaw crazy. Only jail it or kill it."

I think the bigger risk is still really simple dirty bombs. You could deliver it with just a plastic box connected to a weather balloon. Much easier to make. Attach a smart phone with extended battery, a release trigger to open whenever it eventually flies inside of specific desired GPI coordinates. In weeks, or maybe months, your job is done. You can get spent nuke rods from many college campus with nothing more than just a big chested blond loaded into a tight t-shirt standing on the other side of the room from the engineering students... Now THAT scares me. It only takes one techie idiot. With a big chested blond friend. So we are safe this will never happen. :)

Technology is not always our friend...

That's good. You should consider politics. I don't think God and politics make a good mix.

Oh sorry V, perhaps you belong to a head gear wearing religious group. Apologies.

I better to suggest to watch

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/4521/ali-khameneis-speech-at-nam-summit-#Item_1 :-)

A good rule of thumb is to keep nukes away from leaders whose religion requires wearing head gear. Vikings might be the exception.

I'd rather have any type of speech no matter if I like it or not 100% protected by the first amendment.

@Faudel

I'm afraid I mistakenly gave you the credit for posting your own work. In fact, you only re-posted a viral item existing on other forums like Vanguard News Network -motto "No Jews. Just Right"

Or, at the only slightly less inflammatory World Socialist Web Site, author Tom Carter uses the same headline in what seems a biased de-construction the Bill for his own readers:

On the one hand, the resolution denounces “swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti in residential halls, public areas on campus, and Hillel houses,” and denounces those who accuse “the Jewish people, or Israel, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.”

To see which other websites, which, like personal-view.com, have been infected with this virus, try doing a search

@Faudel

I agree with your right to interpret this piece of legislation as limiting freedom of speech. But you may have mis-read the document which you have attached for our benefit. Please see if you can find it within yourself to change the title of your thread:

from

California passes resolution defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism

so as not to mislead us as to what that Bill actually stated:

anti-Semitism exists on some college campuses and is often cloaked as criticism of Israel. ... _{anti-Semitic activity will not be tolerated in the classroom or on campus.}

Why? Because of all topics, this is likely to be among the most divisive and inflammatory. In the absence of true journalists, there's only us here at the wheel. Let's get it right.