Law & Order: SVU
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We are still proud of you. And you are wrong. You have not lost your family's love.
Nasar's mother
Everyone in this city despises me and thinks I'm a liar. I have family in the courtroom. I could lose them, my job. I don't know if it's worth it.
Nasar
These people are Islamaphobes. It's in their blood.
Nazar
Two Jewish kids planning a birthright trip to Israel. This would be a lot easier if we were dealing with alt-right thugs.
Dodds
Benson: Where are you in all this?
Fin: I see racism all around.
What happened to Nazar was terrible, but the things she was saying... normalizing anti-Semitic tropes. That's how it started in Germany.
Man
Fin: Why can't she say what she wants?
Carisi: She can say what she wants. That's the First Amendment. But the things she's saying piss people off. Words have consequences.
Fin: So it's free speech until it pisses someone off and then it's hate speech?
Carisi: Come on, how would you feel if she was saying these kinds of things about African Americans?
Fin: I don't listen to ignorant people.
Carisi: That's you. The rest of the world doesn't work that way.
Benson: You told my detectives you were set up. Why were you in the synagogue?
Nazar: I was lured there. By a man pretending to want peace. I was attacked by a Zionist.
I knew those two were up to no good. They had red hats, you know. MAGA. And they called me a kike.
Woman