It is not even a condemnation of Israel to say this. You can believe it is justified or necessary if you so choose! But the refusal to even engage with reality by the mainstream US discourse makes it almost impossible to even begin to understand what is happening in Israel and Palestine and why.

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This is the single most important factor in the 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 conflict, it is the lodestar around which all other events rotate, you cannot understand anything unless you center it in your analysis---and most US discussions of the issue treat it as totally incidental, if they mention it at all.

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Your takeaway from the Israeli statement should be to remember that the 3.4 million Palestinians of the West Bank live under a permanent and unaccountable military-security state that has existed for nearly sixty years, and that every major political party in Israel is committed to maintaining it.

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So - Canadian diplomats cannot meet with any future House members because of this bullshit

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"perform your political activism invisibly and don't tell anyone about it, and we won't crack down on you" is many things, but the most salient of these is that it's a lie.

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