Incitement to terrorism

Incitement to terrorism is a category in some national legal systems which may criminalize direct encouragement of acts of violence or praise for proscribed terrorist organizations.

[7] The Council of Europe adopted the Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, also in 2005, which requires member countries to pass legislation to criminalize the "public provocation to commit a terrorist offence".

[11] Barak-Erez and Scharia identify Israel as belonging to the European tradition, in part because of its legal system's origins in British law.

[13] Section 4 of the ordinance states that: A person who – (a) publishes, in writing or orally, words of praise, sympathy or encouragement for acts of violence calculated to cause death or injury to a person or for threats of such acts of violence; or (b) publishes, in writing or orally, words of praise or sympathy for or an appeal for aid or support of a terrorist organization .

7/2000[16] explicitly prohibits, with a penalty of one to two years' imprisonment: ...glorification or justification, through any form of public information or communication, of the offenses referred to in articles 571 to 577[a] refer to belonging hereof or of persons having participated in their perpetration, or the commission of acts tending to discredit, demean or humiliate the victims of terrorist offenses or their families...[17]The Terrorism Act 2006 created the offence of encouragement to terrorism,[18] which prohibits "a statement that is likely to be understood by some or all of the members of the public to whom it is published as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to them to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism or Convention offences."

[21] However, in 2010 Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the Supreme Court ruled that "a criminal prohibition on advocacy carried out in coordination with, or at the direction of, a foreign terrorist organization is constitutionally permissible".

Some defendants, including Javed Iqbal, who helped the Hezbollah TV station Al-Manar to broadcast, have been convicted of providing material support for terrorism under United States law.