Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, The University of Adelaide, language: English, abstract: "Hate Propaganda is often not a symptom of hatred between groups. Rather it is the cause of the hatred" (J. Belman). Through critical analysis of hate speech and its relationship to hateful behaviour, in an international context and domestic setting, a partly interdisciplinary response to the global epidemic of hate speech and the laws which prohibit and govern it, is engaged.