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Thanks, Joe. From the Wall Street Journal op-ed you shared, I think one sentence in particular epitomizes the fundamental flaw that derails the thinking of so many on this topic:

-- "As Jason Riley has written, 'If accusing Israel of genocide isn’t defamation of Jewish people, I don’t know what is'.”

Exactly, Jason — you don't know what defamation is. It certainly doesn't defame all people of a certain religion to accuse a government of genocide or other crimes, even if that government claims to exist and to act on behalf of those people.

To the contrary, it's Jason's thinking that's defamatory -- as he inextricably ties all the world's Jews to a political entity (the State of Israel) that many of them condemn, including some who say it shouldn't have even been created in the first place.

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