Hi Yuyutsu,

"Well I don't see it that way."

That is your business to make sense of things, but the laws against such conduct suggests that there is a belief that it is harmful enough to curtail with substantial penalty. The law in the UK against such speech had its origins at a time when there were fears of the rise of Nazism. I wonder whether the current problem of antisemitism might have been curtailed had the law been enforced when there was all the hateful chanting at the SOH. It would be helpful if using religion as a vehicle for hatred was seen as a betrayal of faith instead of an endorsement of it.

I regard the public expression of hatred as harmful. Like the Krell in Forbidden Planet: All that hatred bottled up as Nathan suggested, then manifested when they switched on their machine, annihilating themselves in a day.

Dear Fester,

Your assumption is that because that couple of stupid kids claim that they hate [Israelis], it means that they actually hate
(and that being the case, you ask how we can stop that hate spreading).

I suggested possible alternatives:
1) They are only seeking attention (and by listening to them you supply them with exactly what they are looking for).
2) They sleep-walking recite slogans which they heard elsewhere without even understanding them, they don't even know who those "Israelis" are whom they are supposed to hate, nor could they recognise them in real life.
3) They could have been coerced into producing that clip by some authority figure, as a punishment for something unrelated.

I don't believe that it is possible to fight hate with hate:
punish them severely and others would come in their place, hating you and whatever you represent only for that punishment itself. That would only turn them into martyrs.

I think that the best approach is to let that whole affair drown in the endless and meaningless internet stream of electromagnetic 0's and 1's. Social media is a scourge and is addictive too. Decent people who have anything positive to keep them busy do not go there, nor do sick and elderly Jewish patients (whom according to some, might get scared by that hollow bragging). The more you publish and repeat it outside that cesspit, the more people learn about it who might theoretically be influenced, even more so through defiance when you write about it negatively. You cannot win that way - best to just ignore it all.

Actions in real life are of course something else altogether.

Yes, just as a reasonable employer wouldn't allow a person to come to work drunk, it made much sense to sack the dumb pair who were playing with that addictive junk at work while they were supposed to be performing their duties.