Category: Israel
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Might excusing genocide be considered hate speech?
Progressive hero justifies October 7 Our progressive … acquaintances have their own dog whistles. One of which is “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” That’s code for Kill the Jews. Unless she is stupid, Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, knows that. So does a writer who describes herself as the highest ranking Arab-American…
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What did Hamas expect?
Israel teaches a valuable lesson! Trying to stay in our lane, the faceless bureaucrats at the Werkes are not geopolitical experts. We’ve allowed our international passport to expire and our French was never that good. But we do have some experience on the school yard, where we learned that poking the big kid might get…
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Gaza is Guilty
Calls for a ceasefire are immoral. John Nichols is the contortionist in residence at The Nation magazine, the intellectual Rubberboy of the Madison WI Capital Times. The man could quote Colonel Sanders to justify veganism! Hamas has traumatized Jews (baking babies in the oven, alive? !!!) and reignited pograms around the world. The response from…
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Madison mayor condemns invasion of Ukraine but not of Israel
Do politics trump moral clarity? Our progressive mayor was front and center “to condemn the atrocities being inflicted on the people of Ukraine” when she proclaimed “Solidarity with Ukraine Day in Madison” back in April 2022. Madison WI may be home to a sprinkling of Ukrainians but they’re outnumbered by those of Jewish heritage. Former…
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Even ‘hate speech’ is protected speech
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, United States v. Schwimmer (1929). On the University…