For far too many people who claim to be "free speech absolutists," their convictions die as they arrive at the Israel-Palestine issue. Those who mock "hate speech" as a censorship justification suddenly start invoking it. You can't make exceptions for your favorite causes.
For far too many people who claim to be "free speech absolutists," their convictions die as they arrive at the Israel-Palestine issue. Those who mock "hate speech" as a censorship justification suddenly start invoking it. You can't make exceptions for your favorite causes.
Here's a Dem Congressman -- arguably the loudest pro-Israel voice in the House -- dictating to the Univ. of Penn which speakers they can and cannot invite. If this were any issue other than Israel, it would cause vocal objections. It should here, too: x.com/ritchietorres/…
@ggreenwald Mmmm, maybe 🤔 but, I get really mad about anti Israel speech too. 😔🇺🇲🙏🏻
@ggreenwald 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Exactly! Same old same old in Canada. Tell the truth & if it challenges the spin/false narratives people swallow - then suddenly the truthteller is “divisive, hateful, racist, vile & a trouble maker”. People with high gullibility quotients prefer to live in their delusions.
@ggreenwald I predict there will be a time in the near future when Ben Shapiro will blame people who were critical of Israel over the genocide in Gaza for causing the world to consider Israel a pariah state, unable to accept that it will be Israel's fault and his fault, and people like him.
@ggreenwald Especially when your "favorite cause" uses the "Hate Speech Card" the same way Al Sharpton uses the "Race Card"
@ggreenwald It’s funny how many people would have zero F’s about the Israel Palestinian issue without the culture war if the last decade
@ggreenwald Our allies have declared war on people who performed atrocities and who openly and violently declare support for our enemies. Rights don’t exist without responsibility not to abuse them. When war is declared and people promise to kill you, you best believe them.
Adding to the fact that if people truly read the real history behind how Israel became a nation, they would not be supporting it staunchly. The Balfour promise was a document that held no legal authority, yet it was the reason of the existence of Israel. Contrary to the fact that Great Britain promised the Arab world to grant its independence after helping it defeat the Ottomans, and all Arab countries were promised to become independent, including Palestine. But then a faction of GB’s government sided with the Zionist ideology and forced Palestinians out of their lands by force with no compensation or anything to relocate some Eastern European Jews to a land that for almost a thousand years it was inhabited by Arabs Muslims and Christians and also Jews of the Middle East.