Nazi Free Speech
On Oct. 8, the day after Hamas launched a large-scale surprise attack on southern Israel, Bayan Khatib posted a video on Instagram showing a skillet of shakshuka that she had prepared. The 23-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, a student at Haifa’s Technion Institute and a self-confessed bad cook, proudly captioned the post, “Soon we’ll eat victory shakshuka,” alongside an emoji of a Palestinian flag..Construing her use of the flag and the word “victory” as signalling support for Hamas, Khatib’s fellow students widely circulated the post and demanded that she be punished — both by the university and by state authorities. The complaints were taken seriously: on Oct. 25, Khatib was arrested on suspicion of incitement and spent the night in jail, and on Nov. 9 she faced a disciplinar...










