Conservatives Going All Shaky On The First Amendment Re: Anti-Israel Speech?

I've been too busy to figure out the details...but it sure seems that way.

I don't know why this sort of thing ever surprises me--if that is, indeed, what's happening.

Double standards are maybe the commonest thing in politics.

Now, the asymmetry is pretty obvious:

The left wants to prohibit non-leftist speech by any means necessary--this includes speakers on campus, expression on social media, even private speech between individuals.

They're also conducting borderline-violent demonstrations and "occupations" of campuses, often in violation of trespassing policies and laws.

So, yeah, they're still the major problem.

However, it looks like some of the legislation being pushed by the right is basically just leftist anti-"hate-speech" crap, with e.g. 'transes' scratched out and 'Israel' written in. One I saw seemed to make it illegal to say that Jews killed Jesus or to employ double standards in criticisms of Israel. It's finals time, and I'm only semi-paying attention to this stuff...not even looking up a link, as you can see.

Just complaining and expressing my near-total lack of surprise at what may or may not but probably is going on.

Anyway. The right's always been a bit shaky on free speech, and has turned into its Staunch Defender basically as part of their anti-woke initiative.