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There's a glaring omission in the Economist's articles on free speech: the effort to criminalize BDS activism. [1]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2016/02/16/greatest-threat-to-free-...

The magnitude of the efforts to criminalize BDS activism is far too big for this exclusion to to be considered as something forgotten, unintentionally unmentioned.

The Economist has a certain agenda to uphold so this omission is not very surprising

They don't want to be labelled as an anti-Semitic publication now, do they? /s

The most vocal BDS and anti-BDS people are both Jewish. At this point, I'm afraid to even ask what is going on.

My fiancé is Jewish and pro-BDS. Maybe I live in the leftist-Jewish bubble, but there is quite a bit of political divide in the Jewish community right now over Israel. Criticism of Israel for a long time in the Jewish community, and still to this day, is considered blasphemy. Questioning the idea of a Jewish state vs. a secular one is even worse.

I'm agnostic but grew up Christian, but it's fascinating to me to see it all unfold...I have American friends who have joined the IDF growing up who were super pro-Israel so it's interesting to see this rift appearing.

I don't get it. I'm an immigrant and feel happy to have left the baggage behind.

There is J street and Jewish Voice for Peace, but I don't know how popular they are.

Thanks for the link. I had no idea of the magnitude of the efforts to stifle dissent in this area.

edit: It does seem to be a glaring omission. I would have expected better from the Economist.

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