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Protestors in the U.S. are frequently beaten, illegally detained and have toxic chemicals deployed against them in the streets (or are otherwise menaced and harassed by police) -- regardless of whether they are doing those things. This has been going on for decades, but should be especially obvious to you if you've been following the news in the past 4.5 years.

You can't criticize Israel or you will get punished by government in US. Where is your freedom of speech in this case?

"The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive a newspaper's challenge on free speech grounds to an Arkansas law requiring state government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, a policy the publication's lawyers called a threat to a constitutionally protected form of collective protest." [1]

1. https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-spurns-challe...

2. https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boyco...

You can't criticize Israel or you will get punished by government in US.

This is hyperbolic and obviously false.

Brain-dead and authoritarian though the anti-BDS legislation is -- it is ultimately a corner case with very narrow applicability.

On the whole, you are perfectly free to criticize Israel in the U.S., and of course countless people have been doing just that for multiple decades.

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