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Bomber Bradbury wrote on 17 July:

The Free Speech Fake Union is a zionist astroturf organisation backed by Atlas Network that has weaponised free speech for the Right. …

If The Free Speech Fake Union gain control of Internet NZ, it’s just a matter of time before they start demanding anti-semitism is purged from the NZ internet.

I find it interesting that some people can’t cope with the possibility of an organisation taking a principled stand on issues, regardless of personal views of members.

Far from the FSU demanding censorship of anti-semitic material on the Internet, just three days earlier the FSU said exactly the opposite:

In response to the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism in Universities that recently recommended limiting particular speech, the New Zealand Jewish Council has called for similar action by the New Zealand Government. But threatening to silence speech, as odious as some may find it, would set a dangerous precedent and be a terrible own goal for the Jewish community, says Dane Giraud, Council member of the Free Speech Union. 

So three days after the FSU explicitly and loudly said there shouldn’t be censorship of anti-semitic speech, Bomber claims their stance is the exact opposite.

And incidentally the Jewish Council has said the FSU has misunderstood what they said, and in fact they don’t support a change on censorship laws.

The fact that FSU and the Jewish Council are having a little flare up over who said what, makes Bomber’s claim that the FSU is a Zionist organisation even more laughable and ill-timed.

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