Quite so. The standard is, for Jews, "If you can't defend yourselves from mass murder without killing children, then you have no right to defend yourselves." For Palestinians: "If your great-grandparents or distant cousins lost property after starting an aggressive war and losing, then go ahead and kill children; also rape, take hostages and torture them, regardless of whether that gets you that property."
@Plinz i think the ordinary panpsychists’ error stems from their not understanding the concept of levels of abstraction, and that there’s such a thing as virtual reality—(perhaps most professional panpsychists do understand both concepts, they just reject them as good explanations?)
Being rabidly anti-Israel is the single most important litmus test on the Left. Without it, you can be as far Left as Scott Weiner and the Left will chase you out. If you hate Israel, though, pretty much anything else is forgiven. It is the sine qua non of the Left in 2026.
My column: The Shaming of Scott Weiner: https://t.co/9ZxusC2Hyy