According to a recent article in the latest issue of upfront magazine, israel is planning to ban the use of the word,”nazi”. There will be fines for anyone who does not use the word for educational purposes. I personally understand the effect this group has had on the general population of israel and do not believe this is a word to be thrown around lightly. However, i do not believe it should be banned either. Banning any word or phrase is destroying free speech. An argument for the ban is that many young people have been using the word in insults and have been using it to lightly. I feel though that the ban would only make the insult more popular and often used. It would be a rebellious thing to do and all you would have to do to say the word is make sure no authority is around. This would cause the word to expand in popularity among teenagers and destroy the purpose of the ban in the first place. An idea i would suggest is a program to be set in place to teach young people how serious the root of the word is and why they shouldn't use it.