Reply #115: I've done it at least 3-4 times in this thread alone. But what makes you think you can lecture...

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...others about hate and bigotry when the sources you use and organizations you support WRT Israel/Palestine are hateful and bigoted?

You have no business lecturing others about hate and bigotry.

In fact, your mantra of "all criticism of Hamas/PA is really bigoted criticism of Palestinians in general" just goes to show you don't distinguish between the Islamist extremists in control of the Palestinian gov't and the citizens they've been oppressing on a daily basis for years. You're under the very false impression Palestinians are one and the same as their extreme Islamist gov't. You should realize all Palestinians are not the same (rightwingers do that) so therefore to criticize Hamas and the PA is not criticism of Palestinians in general.

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WRT Lior vs. the PA, there is no moral equivalency between what the state of Israel allows him to do and what the PA routinely does 24/7 to incite Palestinians towards hate and violence. The differences are vast b/w Israel and Palestine WRT incitement. Israel's media and NGO's keep the GOI honest. That's what freedom of expression tends to do. The GOI also funds programs promoting genuine tolerance and peace. The PA isn't into that stuff at all. Even if they wanted to be, Hamas and Islamic Jihad would ridicule them for trying to play nice with the Jews and Zionists.