[UPDATE: In retrospect I buried the lede here. On motion to dismiss, the court found that social media postings regarding a synagogue event did not violate the FACE act because they do not constitute a "true threat," because using the phrase "no Justice no peace" was not alleged to lead to violence.
As I point out at end of the post, the operative question under the FACE act at the motion to dismiss stage, at least arguably, is whether the posting in question sufficiently threatening to intimidate synagogue goers, and that seems a much closer question. The court did not address the First Amendment at all in its opinion, so the issue of "true threat," which is a First Amendment, not a FACE act doctrine, was not obviously present at this stage of the litigation.]
As Eugene noted previously, a federal district court dismissed a FACE act claim for threatening synagogue attendees against the Palestinian Youth Movement based on the following social post:
