In a moving article for Quillette about Australia‘s failure to confront rising antisemitism, Jake Pinczewski describes the father-son duo that turned a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach into a pogrom as “vile creatures.”
It’s a good thing he didn’t say that in the United Kingdom, or he might be in jail. In the U.K. and most of the European Union, while free speech extends to crowds chanting “globalize the intifada” and “from the river to the sea,” calling a killer a “creature” can be a crime. Take the case of Jamie Michael. He’s a former Royal Marine and Iraq veteran. He was outraged by Axel Rudakubana’s knife attack in Southport last summer on young girls around his daughters’ ages. Three were killed, and 10 were wounded as they attended a dance workshop.
