MindTheTech, a well-funded conference in Midtown focused on supporting the Israeli tech industry, was disrupted by pro-Palestine protesters on Monday morning, who were promptly forced out of the event. Moments after I tweeted videos of the disruptions, I was also kicked out without explanation.
It’s becoming clearer to people around the world just how crazy Israel’s claim is that if you don’t support their wholesale slaughter of civilians you must support terrorism. What it’s doing in Gaza is harming global perceptions of Israel.
And there it is again. Are these people really such crude thinkers that they can only imagine either wholehearted support for Israel in everything it does, or wholehearted support for terrorism? Can they really not imagine that there’s any other position a person might reasonably hold? Or do they just say this because it works for them rhetorically?