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Criticising Berlin for forbidding hatred against jews is a new height of stupidity.
Israel exists, just accept that
In the US, many laws have been passed, and more proposed, to punish entities who boycott Israel. Entities being individuals, corporations, cities & towns, etc.
And you know what I say to that as an American? I will boycott whoever the fuck I please, whenever I please, for any reason or none at all as I see fit. And if corporations are people too, my friend, then they have the right as well to self-determine who they'll buy from and who they won't. And while we're at it, so do municipalities, and private clubs, any other collection of people singular or plural.
I find such craven obeisance in service of Israel to be personally offensive, and any American who pays attention to how Israel actually behaves with their own two eyes is likely to come to the same conclusion if they are confronted with the issue and think about it for five seconds.
Anyway, that may be a factor behind loud support of boycotting Israel from random American leftoids.
BDS of South African apartheid set a precedent that shook white nationalists to their bones.
We're watching the modern western liberal consensus on free markets collapse under the weight of a few Palestinian activists saying "Sell your soda stream stock to oppose genocide". Now it's going to be illegal to divest from Israeli private business because... Israel exists? Because ethno-nationalism is a natural right?
The fascist project of national ethnic purity seems to be as alive in Berlin today as it was 70 years ago.
The account I'm responding to is a 3h old troll sock puppet. Don't feed the troll.