I am a free speech absolutist. I am glad that Samidoun chanted, “Death to Canada,” and “Death to Israel,” on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, because they unmasked themselves despite the keffiyehs hiding their faces.
I do not believe that Canada — or any country or jurisdiction — should have laws to criminalize speech — at all. So, it would be unprincipled and hypocritical were I to suggest that Canada’s growing population of antisemitic terrorist cheerleaders be told to shut up under threat of arrest and imprisonment.
