Article is light on details, does this include criticism of the state of Israel or of Judaism as a religion or is it only racist speech against people with Semitic ancestry?
Details can be found here:
Alteration: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2037-IX
Paragraph one of Part One of Article 161 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rada of Ukraine, 2001, No. 25-26, p. 131) shall be supplemented with the words “manifestations of anti-Semitism” after the words “honor and dignity”.
Code: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14#Text
They upgraded paragraph 161 of the criminal code of Ukraine. It forbids discrimination, specifies punishments for deliberately inciting hate, and more severe punishments if the inciter also does violence or if the incitement leads to severe consequences.
Notably, so far it did not contain the word “antisemitism” and inciting hate against Jewish people was considered either as inciting ethnic, national or religious hate, according to the context. Now antisemitism is mentioned. No protected group is given more protection. I’m not sure if I agree with the wording (how does antisemitism differ from what was already forbidden?). But it’s fairly standard text for an average European country.
Article 161. Violation of the equality of citizens depending on their racial, national, regional affiliation, religious beliefs, disability and on other grounds
- Intentional actions aimed at inciting national, regional, racial or religious enmity and hatred, at humiliating national honor and dignity, or insulting the feelings of citizens in connection with their religious beliefs, as well as direct or indirect restriction of the rights or establishment of direct or indirect privileges of citizens on the grounds of race, skin color, political, religious and other beliefs, gender, disability, ethnic and social origin, property status, place of residence, on language or other grounds -
shall be punishable by a fine of two hundred to five hundred non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens or restriction of liberty for a term of up to five years, or imprisonment for a term of up to three years, with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years or without it.
- The same actions, combined with violence, fraud or threats, as well as committed by an official, -
shall be punished by a fine of five hundred to one thousand tax-free minimum incomes of citizens or by imprisonment for a term of two to five years, with or without deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years.
- The actions provided for in parts one or two of this article, which were committed by an organized group of persons or caused grave consequences, -
shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five to eight years.
Note. In this article, regional affiliation should be understood as a person’s affiliation by birth or residence to a region - part of the territory of Ukraine or a territory of compact settlement of Ukrainians outside the territory of Ukraine - that differs from other territories by a number of historical, geographical, linguistic and other features.
And it’s eastern Europe, so it’s not like it’s going to be hard to find the latter.
Some of these comments seem to be imagining the state of tolerance is the same as in the West proper.
Why is there need of special law against anti semitism? anti semitism is NOT different from any other kind of bigotry.
The way western countries engage in jewish exceptionalism like this is one of the major reason Israel has audacity to carry out its crimes, not to mention how these laws will be misused against pro palestine protestors.
This is not a special law against antisemitism. This is a generic law against incitement of hate and discrimination, with more serious punishments if violence is done, or if a group does it, or if serious consequences happen.
They added the word “anti-semitism” to the list of forbidden forms of incitement (it already forbade inciting ethnic and religous hate).
The Israeli newspaper makes it sound special, but it really is not.
They added the word “anti-semitism” to the list of forbidden forms of incitement.
Are there any other hate crimes regarding specific religion in that list?
Nope. That makes it somewhat odd.
yup, thanks for the context tho.
Uh didn’t y’all tankies keep parroting Putin’s “Ukraine is full of neonazis” line 4 years ago? Black sun flags and all that? Zelenskyy, a Jew, was supposed to be an antisemite?
Now when there’s finally a law against it, everything has changed and antisemitism was never a real issue?
zionism and nazism can co exist, why are you surprised? also thats projection, I never said those things
Ah yes, the homosexual Nazi-commie-Jews Putin warned us about.
sorry what
I’m projecting most of your kind on you, tankie. It was specifically persecution of jews in Ukraine that your kind complained about. Now that there’s a law against it, that’s bad?
when did I do that?
Why jump to tankie here?
Seen plenty of that user’s comments. Russia and China can do no wrong, all western countries are bad, etc.
Russia and China can do no wrong
never said that but ok
You literally called Mao top 5 humans of the last century and said the millions of deaths were justified. You’re a tankie.
You literally called Mao top 5 humans of the last century
Yes I did and I stand by it
said the millions of deaths were justified
I never said justified, I said he cant be solely blamed for those deaths and you are discrediting him whatever he achieved by this boogeyman logic.
I dont consider tankie as an insult
- I do not believe in liberalism and idea of liberal freedom liberal rights etc
- I am not an anarchist
- I believe in leninism and vangaurdism If you call those people tankies, fine by me.
No, in another comment you also said that the ones who were killed, rather than starved, deserved it.
I dont consider tankie as an insult
Personally I do, because I believe in personal liberties over authoritarian states’ “right” to straight up roll tanks on civilians.
I do not believe in liberalism and idea of liberal freedom liberal rights etc
So you’re an authoritarian and a bigot.
I am not an anarchist
Never claimed you were, those guys have some semblance of respect for human life. I do believe they even cherish freedom.
You might be a tankie if…
You use “libshit” unironically.
Where is “libshit” written?
In the user’s comment history.
I hate liberalism and I will insult liberals if they argue in bad faith, I dont care about your labels, this is just ad hominem you are engaging in
I will insult
this is just ad hominem you are engaging in
Every accusation is a confession.
Works with tankies, too. Which makes sense, given that they’re just a coat of red paint away from fascists themselves.
As they say on TV, thank you, no further questions.
There are orthodox jews worldwide that speak out loudly against the actions of Israel. I wonder if these jews could get jailed for antisemitism. I’m sure it’s already possible in the UK.
I wonder if those Orthodox Jews are ever the victims of bigotry because people just assume they are for all of Israel’s actions.
Not just bigotry, they are also getting killed: Antisemitic Attacks in 2025 Caused Highest Number of Deaths in 30 Years, Study Finds.
Last year saw the highest level of deadly violence against Jews around the world in over three decades, with 20 people killed …
… a spike that began following the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza …
Almost all of this increased “antisemitism” comes from hate towards Israel.
I wonder how anti semitism is a different kind of bigotry than other bigotries, why do you need special law for this
Well yes but that’s not what AmidFuror was talking about.
They are trying to make sense of special laws for certain ethnoreligion, thats what they are talking about
Their comment has nothing to do with any laws.
Don’t fucking appease Zionist trash
Very very bad
Somebody better tell the Azov battalion to watch their P’s and Q’s.
Love that some other Nazis down voted this.
I think we’re starting to see the intolerance of tolerance as the far left evolves into the thing it hates.
“Jewish people don’t want the racist violence against them recognized; they want special treatment.”
“Hate speech should be punished. You have to punch Nazis in the face. No, not that hate speech.”
“I’m only against Zionism, but a lot of those rabbis in the synagogues are pro-Zionism, so it’s ok if someone lobs a molotov cocktail on it while no one is there.”
“European Jews in Israel should return to their home countries, if they’ll have them. If not, they should be forced to go to an uninhabited island.”
“That French Jew and his son must have said something to those Palestinians in Italy, or why else would he get beaten up?”
There’s so much dog whistling here, the dogs are going nuts.
too much words, strawman for saying “I am a zionist”
I haven’t read the law in the original Ukranian, but what the article describes is one that punishes anti-Semitism, not anti-Zionism. Why strawman it as banning criticism of Israel unless you see that in the text? Or do you just know what those Jews are up to?
I havent read the law too but its very easy to imagine how these laws can be arbitrary and be used to shield israel. We have couple of examples already
