Why hate speech laws help, not hinder, anti-semitism

Dane Giraud writes:

Most forms of racism depict their victims as inferior: backward, uncivilised, animalistic. Anti-semitism works differently. Jews are accused of excessive power – of secretly controlling finance, media, governments, of engineering wars, mass migration and social decay. It is a worldview obsessed with hidden influence. We are small, but highly organised and pull the strings of society.

Now consider how this belief system interprets censorship? When the state limits speech, the very act intended to protect Jews becomes evidence (in the mind of the conspiracy theorist) that we really do wield undue influence. Censorship does not defuse anti-semitism. If anything, it animates its internal logic.

I think this is very insightful.

Religious fanaticism was behind Bondi. That is not a speech problem. It is an intelligence, security and cultural problem. It requires surveillance, confronting extremist networks and cutting off funding, and actively empowering moderate voices within Muslim communities. 

I agree. Islamist terrorist attacks globally are well down from the ISIS peak in 2014, but 2025 has seen a significant increase from 2024.

Data from here.

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