Antisemitism is not free speech. Indoctrinating children into homicidal cult ideology is not free speech. I have no problem mentioning violations of free speech and deployment of hate speech in the same post. Condemning each is not that difficult. The consequences of observing both happening at the same time, on the other hand, are a lot more nuanced to make a single immediate judgement on.
As far as the shameful government ruling Israel, don't get me started on it. I can talk to you frankly about what I think of this gang of zealots because you would know what I am talking about and would not, as certain DUers have done with some of your posts, use what I say to promote anti-Israel and antisemitic narratives of their own. I consider Israel to be under occupation by the current government. This is a hyperbole, and I don't mean it literally, but it explains my view of the situation in shorthand. The reasons that made it possible are too complex to address on social media, and none of them have to do with the unanimous approval of the government by the majority of Israeli voters.I make this analogy to point out that it is not irreversible and in all likelihood temporary.
In the case of the current Netanyahu regime, what pisses me off most, and the reason why I invoke occupation, is that I see the conventions being legitimate and permissible in the occupied territories under international law being applied to the entire society of the sovereign State of Israel, eroding the country's long-standing democratic institutions.
Try explaining this to someone who is routinely and in all seriousness uses labels like "European colonialism", "genocide", "land grab", "apartheid" and other such nonsense to describe Israel, Zionism and Judaism as if they are one and the same.
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