These are the rules.

Calling for the destruction of Israel is free speech. Rioting and vandalizing campuses is free speech. Assaulting Jewish students on campus and community members outside synagogues is free speech. Any effort to stop them is an assault on “free speech” and “democratic norms”.

Florida Panthers minority owner Doug Cifu tweeting “Israel now and forever. Until ever last Hamas rat is eliminated” at a troll resulted in him being suspended by the NHL and forced to apologize for “unacceptable and inappropriate” posts.

The same activists, media outlets and elected officials who keep claiming that the “free speech” of the people tearing down hostage posters and assaulting Jewish students is under fire have no problem with this.

They don’t believe in free speech. They believe in unlimited violence disguised as speech. They believe that their allies have the right to do anything from throwing Molotov cocktails at police to smashing windows to holding entire campuses hostage. And they believe that you have the right to keep quiet or get canceled.

Their current free speech pose is a lie. And it doesn’t take long to show it.

Calling for the destruction of Israel is free speech. Calling for the destruction of Hamas isn’t.