David Bernstein | 1.7.2025 6:32 PM

My post from a decade ago is now behind a Washington Post paywall, but I reprint it below:

Apparently, the real lesson we should be learning from the murder of "blasphemous" French cartoonists is that American pro-Israel activists are at least as repressive as Islamist terrorists. That's because the former have purportedly created a "taboo" against criticizing Israel–a purported taboo, I should note, that Greenwald himself and many other bloggers, along with every major American newspaper and left-of-center journal, violate regularly, and one that somehow doesn't stop professors hostile to Israel from dominating........

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