Israel's not-quite-free speech

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: November 17, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

BEREL WEIN
Jerusalem Post
11-17-2000
Headline: Israel's not-quite-free speech
Byline: BEREL WEIN
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 09

Friday, November 17, 2000 -- The recent commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin raised again the painful and complicated subject of free speech in our "democratic, Jewish republic."

On the one hand, freedom of speech is one of the foundations of any truly democratic society. All tyrannies and dictatorships clamp down hard on speeches or printed articles that do not parrot the governing party line. One deviates from that ...

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