Ukraine has passed laws criminalizing calling Israel's genocide a genocide.

Question

Nazi Ukraine has passed laws criminalizing calling Israel's genocide a genocide

Punk ass actor sits on his ass subverting democracy taking millions in arms to kidnap children to send to the front lines cuz he's too much of a coward to apparently fight for his country

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Answer 1

For this claim I found an Article called myth Detector and their article basically states that the allegations that Ukraine banning criticism of Israel are false and misleading. It states that Ukraine recently updated its criminal code to specifically punish antisemitic acts such as hate speeched towards Jews and violence or threats motivated by antisemitism. The law does NOT say that criticizing Israel is illegal. It also says that online posts have distorted the law by falsely claiming Ukraine had outlawed calling Israels actions a genocide. The article concludes by saying this claim is manipulative because it confuses anti hate laws with censorship of political speech about Israel. A secondary source I found stated the same thing in different wording. When I tried to contact my sources, I did not get a reply. The evidence of the law supports the claim against what is being stated here. And I could not find any biases that might be shown here.

Source: https://mythdetector.com/en/against-antisemitism-adopted-in-ukraine

Answer 2

Think of this as your investigation log. Answer each question to explain what you discovered and how you got there.

1. Write a brief overall summary of your findings.

The original post was deleted and there are no recent articles that support this claim. From what I have found there is no solid evidence of this claim being true.

https://bsky.app/profile/bakabakemono.bsky.social/post/3mjprfes26c2r

this link given leads to a deleted bluesky post and when you search this topic there are no articles or news sources that prove this to be a valid claim.

Answer 3

This is very misleading, and a lot of valuable context is missing. On Holocaust Rememberance Day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed legislation that formally criminalizes hate speech, with an emphasis on antisemitism. People who commit any form of conduct that is deemed to be hate speech or a hate crime, that would have previously would only been subject to public condemnation will now be held criminally liable. Anyone who labels Israel's conduct in Palestine and the West Bank will still be protected by Ukraine's constitution, and Ukraine has condemned Israel's actions towards innocent Palestinians in the past, and supports a two-state solution.

Answer 4

I found that this was a very exaggerated claim based on an amendment to an existing anti-hate speech law in Ukraine on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.

I could not find the exact law and legislation released by the Ukrainian government because I don't speak Ukrainian; However, The Times of Israel article provided exact legal titles of the law amended, specific amendments, and the timeline of the law enacted. As for first person evidence the article helped me find, I found the previously unamended law from a file from 2010 Article 161, which is the anti hate speech law in Ukraine that covered anti hate speech (religion, race, color skin, political, sex, ethnic, social origin, property status, etc.). The article also provided the specific amendment (Law No. 2037-IX) that broadened Article 161 to include anti-semitism specifically in the definition of hate speech in Ukraine law. Finally Bill NO. 5110 that amended and broadened anti-Semitism to criminal liability. 

I did not find any evidence that any of the legislation passed would prevent political criticism of the Israeli government and its actions towards the people of Gaza. In Article 161 hate speech is defined as spreading speech is discrimination, not providing equality, or insulting/humiliating people on the basis of list in the previous paragraph. If criticism of the Israeli government begins to land people in jail in Ukraine, the Ukrainian government would be in direct violation of their freedom of speech Articles. 

The Times of Israel is heavily biased towards Israel. The author mentions his opinion all throughout the article as well as claims without giving evidence on the amount of antisemitism that exists in the broader context. That being said, I still chose this article because the specific legalities were completely backed by evidence with first person evidence of Ukrainian law. Basically everything is named by their legal titles (making everything easy to search and confirm) and much is even linked. The bias may undermine the content/claims of the article but it does not change legal proceedings. 

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