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The outcry is right here, obviously,

I don't know if you've noticed but it's usually very difficult to criticize Israel outside of the darker corners of the internet.

I would not call HN a darker corner of the internet...

This thread is why I said "usually."

This thread surprised me; I thought politics was off-topic on HN, at least for root articles - it seems to be OK in comments, as long as people don't get too angry.

And even so, it's relatively minor and much less mainstream as social forums go.

It's flagged and gone, so I think the point stands.

Criticizing Israel is mainstream. Only the newsmedia machine likes to shy from it.

Compared to what though? Reading some of the responses here, virtually no one has mentioned the fact that Israel's middle eastern neighbors, and more broadly, most of the Muslim world, are also oppressive ethnostates that treat Jews significantly worse. They don't need laws on the books to mistreat Jews, and we all know why.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jews_in_Syria#21st_...

You will see no outcry in the media because that would be antisemitism.

I hate 21st century

Yea, the rest of the centuries in human history were much better weren't they.