Today, he takes aim at what he calls “mushy thinking” by American / Jewish journalists — ones with whom he disagrees, apparently, about Gaza — and what may lawfully (and perhaps more importantly, morally…) be done, in response to the terror attack there, on 10.07.2023.

But in the end, his central argument is that he wants to be the one who calls “balls and strikes” — in sum, he wants his own brand of “speech codes”. [His “okay for discussion list” appears at right, in black. Note that he wants only to discuss “relations” — but would leave calling it ~2,300 years of on and off warfare… as NOT allowed. Damn.]

It is astonishing that he and his former fellows at Powerline spent a decade arguing that “the left” was censoring offensive speech in violation of our founding promises.

Then Israel gets attacked (and, in fairness — that’s after a decade of on and off smaller scale attacks, BY Israel, in Gaza — and ones that resulted in civilian casualties, more than sporadically).

And now — he decries as “not allowed” — any speech by any Jew, or Arab or Christian or atheist that expresses the approval of an “eye for an eye” sentiment used by Hamas — one that Israel (is this moment) is deploying, and lauding — in fact.

That is probably all I need say, to demonstrate the illogic and hypocrisy of his post today.