Reference number: 72/2023
Date: August 14, 2023
Native language: Arabic
Press release
The International Commission (Hashd) publishes a paper entitled: “Hate Speech and its Impact on Civil Peace.”
The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (Hashd) Research and Policy Department published a research paper by Alaa Dawood titled:
“Hate Speech and its Impact on Civil Peace.”
The paper addressed several issues, including the definition of hate speech and civil peace, the characteristics of hate speech, the factors that contributed to the emergence of the phenomenon of hate speech, the impact of hate speech on civil peace, and strategies for reducing hate speech and improving the concept of civil peace among Palestinian youth.
The paper highlighted that reducing hate speech on the Internet and promoting the concept of civil peace does not conflict with freedom of opinion and expression and that such speech requires some deterrent policies, procedures, and laws, as well as community awareness about hate speech and its negative impact on Palestinian society, which leads to violence then Internal chaos takes place.
The paper recommended that the authority should play a role in enacting legislation and decrees that punish inciting speeches, include hate speech within the prohibitions and executive regulations of official institutions, and activate control over all speeches with the need to ban inciting terminology and emphasize governmental and non-governmental institutions.
To ensure that they do not engage in such discourses, and to emphasize the role of parties in correct political upbringing free of inflammatory rhetoric for the youth cadre affiliated with them, managing and following up on their pages, and banning comments that fall within the framework of hate speech, to limit its spread and impact.
It also urged the traditional media to raise media staff awareness and train them to prepare speeches free of incitement and provoking sedition, noting that student movements in Palestinian universities play an important role in promoting belonging to the identity and the Palestinian cause, as opposed to partisan fanaticism or reliance on hate speech.
According to the paper, universities and academic institutions must play a major part in developing a culture of discourse and acceptance of diversity, which strengthens young people’s understanding of civic peace and the rule of law. As well as training the next generation on how to cope with hate speech.
To read the full paper in Arabic, click here:
Finished.
The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (Hashd)
