“Israel is on the brink of banning the N-word. N as in Nazi, that is. Parliament gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a bill that would make it a crime to call someone a Nazi — or any other slur associated with the Third Reich — or to use Holocaust-related symbols in a noneducational way. The penalty would be a fine of as much as $29,000 and up to six months in jail.
Backers of the law say it is a response to what they see as a rising tide of anti-Semitism around the world as well as an increasing, casual invocation of such terms and totems in Israeli politics and even teenage trash talk.”
Gina Grad (http://www.twitter.com/ginagrad), John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola), and Ben Mankiewciz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) of The Young Turks discuss and debate this decision. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.