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).
These mirror effort in Israeli press — eg:
And this blockbuster in Hebrew in Yediot Ahronoth:
And in the Free Beacon:
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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”.
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/