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Reply To: Have you ever been told that supporting Israel prevents you from supporting Palestinians? After taking this course, how would you go about responding to false accusations like this?

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AvatarDavid Bainbridge
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Wyatt, I think this is a really good point and I think you are totally right that it is emblematic of our political discourse as a whole. We are so tempted to reduce complex political, social, and religious issues to a binary “for” or “against” formulation that really loses the heart of the issue for a politicized labeling game. We should be able to state our beliefs honestly without being immediately labeled as hateful or bigoted. On the other hand, I don’t think our duty to speak truth goes away as soon as those labels come out.