What this means - and likely it won’t be just in NY - is the normalization of a new baseline definition of Israel to mean “Israel + the occupied territories”.
...A definition insisted on by the same people who will express OUTRAGE at the assertion that “apartheid” accurately describes the situation between the Jordan River & Med Sea.
…and a definition insisted on by many of the same people who pretend to have concerns about “annexation” — even as they demand that the US to treat the West Bank as already annexed.
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If you don’t follow pro-Greater Israel twitter, you’re missing right now a campaign of character assassination against Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors Chair — one that looks a lot like previous campaign against the ICC prosector (both of whom happen to be non-white women).
People are suddenly paying attention to laws in states quashing free speech critical of Israel.
What most people don’t know is that these laws are being used as a template for legislation quashing free speech on other topics.
A quick thread.
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I warned back in 2018 - U.S. Politicians Are Backing a Free Speech Exception for Israel — & Creating a Template for Broader Assault on the First Amendment.
I warned: "this template could be re-purposed to bar contracts with individuals or groups affiliated with or supportive of any political cause or organization...that the majority in a legislature or the occupant of a governor’s office deemed undesirable.”
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In conjunction with his intro of an outrageous res bashing @Ilhan@AOC & @RepPressley, Waltz (R-FL) has helpfully compiled a doc containing what he apparently sees as the evidence of their anti-Israel, antisemitic ways. Let’s review!
To people who today are either staying silent or arguing that they - as Jewish Israelis or Jewish Americans - just want peace:
Too many “we-support-peace people have for years kept their heads in the sand about the clear intentions behind Israeli policies... 1/
... & about the constant and ever-escalating violations of their basic rights and dignities these policies that inflict on Palestinians. 2/
Good intentions, loving peace, holding on to “hope” - it has long been clear that without turning these into actions, they are just stories people who are privileged by the status quo tell themselves... 3/