Great read on Free Speech and America's love affair with Israel.

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Great read on Free Speech and America's love affair with Israel. Of particular interest is a senator's husband throwing around her name as his own power. Reminds me of officer's wives in the Army who loved telling people what rank their husbands were and demanding a higher level of respect based on his rank.
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/dianne-feinstein-husband-threaten-univ-calif-demanding-ban-excessive-israel-criticism/

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Rich LaDuca said…
I wish more people would get it through their thick skulls that criticizing Israel and Israeli politics is not bigotry.
Lets face it, while Palestine was most certainly circumcised, it was unceremoniously done, repeatedly... Israel is not Jewish... It is Political Zionism hiding in the folds of a very exclusive religious construct.

And that construct does not deserve to be free from criticism.

It has manufactured tactics used to put critics on the defensive (such as noted in the article).

But for some fucking reason, people have been rendered to stupid to realize this stuff...
September 26, 2015 at 10:52 AM
Carl Collins said…
Rich LaDuca You made this up to cover your bigotry.  It's called rationalization.   Palestinians are terrorists, Israelis are not.  Everything else is BS.
September 29, 2015 at 10:53 AM
Jason ON said…
Actually, if we go by the definition of terrorism the Israel would be one of the largest purveyors of it, Carl Collins. Of course, so would the USA, but who's counting?
September 29, 2015 at 10:55 AM
Carl Collins said…
Jason ON   Only in your warped fantasy world.
September 29, 2015 at 11:09 AM
Rich LaDuca said…
Carl Collins
"Palestinians are terrorists"
"You made this up to cover your bigotry.  It's called rationalization."
You were saying?
September 29, 2015 at 12:52 PM
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