Is freedom of speach gone?

Today, I woke up to the news that lawyers in the US are being denied jobs for offering intellectual support to the Palestinian cause.

This is wrong. We should not do this. We are responding with violence to a peaceful act of dissent. This can only escalate the violence. And, when things escalate, terrible things happen.

For example, if one of the students believes the letters of dismissal are wrong, and an act of violence, they may feel entitled to use violence to set things right. It will take a lot of violence (is it an infinite amount? ) to convince a law firm to make a job offer otherwise.

Now, imagine the people in Gaza. Some, perhaps due to intellectual limitations, think that violence is their only way to speak. We do not let them speak otherwise. And, when violence is used to send a message, innocent people die, and it hurts. More violence then follows.

We should allow the ideas of Gazans to be heard in our courts, in our schools and on our television. We should even allow Hamas to speak in our synagogues and temples. We should listen to them, and we should prove that terrorism and violence are wrong. It should be clear to any would be terrorist that they are more welcome to speak in a synagogue than to blow it up. That their arguments can be heard, peacefully, and reasonably.

No matter how absurd it seems to us today, when thousands are willing to die for an idea, no matter how silly it seems, the idea is not without merit. We thus should listen, before the guns come out.

Encouraging logical arguments could give Palestinians an incentive to become educated -- and more able to make logical arguments. Educated people are less inclined towards violence and less likely to want to die for no good reasons, killing other innocents in the process and bringing death, ruin and despair upon their loved ones.

Funding schools, increasing employment rates, allowing for human rights, and open borders are the only way to have peace. This has been shown over and over. Eastern Europeans can travel and work in Western Europe. There was a lot of fear that opening the borders would not work, but it does. Educating people and allowing them to work functions. Many people in the western world are very lonely and old, and the elderly do not receive enough care. They could benefit from interactions with those who still know how to connect with others. People from large families still retain that ability. The US is making the same mistake with its wall with Mexico and with its inner cities, where drugs and guns are prevalent because there is no funding for education.

The world is connected. It should not be so easy to silence all voices as it has been in past wars. Palestinians are at Harvard and Yale, in Scotland, in Barcelona, and in other places. They are not just in Gaza. We should learn from this, and allow for education and employment instead of encouraging guns and the punishment of the wrong people, which has been done and documented by historians over and over and justified by corrupt politicians through the media. The children and women of Gaza have not killed anyone. Neither have those in Israel. They have the right to grow. It should not matter what country they come from.

The leadership needs to change in Israel, Gaza, the US, Russia, China, etc, and countries should unite to fight climate change just as they united in the restrictions against COVID instead of fighting each other and poluting through bombs and destruction of buildings and roads that will have to be rebuilt at a cost to the environment. No country should be allowed to SELL weapons or conduct OR SUPPORT a war without being prepared to pay for the cost to the environment not just for the bombs. Leaders of countries should be changed in the same way we change mayors. They seemed to have little power during COVID. The decisions were uniform. Why are they so powerless to stop genocide yet again? Why is the destruction of a whole country the only way to respond to mass murder like 911 or the massacre in Israel? It's not like the Taliban lost. They have power over Iraq and Afganistan now. So why is Israel supported in repeating the mistake the US made? How far should Hamas extend? West Palestine? Jerusalem?