There were two main parties in conflict during The Troubles. The Catholics were discriminated against by the British and by Irish protestants, but the ethnic cleansers were a big influence within the IRA.
The American right specifically does it with Likud and its allies (including ethnic cleansers). While I support the wider and original conception of the state of Israel, U.S. support has been so perverted toward equating the Israeli political right with Israel itself over the past 30 years that it is indeed foolish to ally with them.
Correct. And sometimes support involves giving an ally who’s not as privileged as you are a little understanding, instead of alienating them by making false equivalencies between those for whom violence is part of their ideological agenda and those who use it in self-defense or occasionally in anger. Doing that is one of the things that puts one on the road to appeasement.
The law, which is still operational in the U.S. even for those who advocate ethnic cleansing. The U.S. in 2018 isn’t Weimar Germany, any more than the antifa are the 1920s and 1930s KPD. I’m all for Spencer filing assault charges against the guy who punched him on-camera, but he won’t because a trial would raise other hard questions about his words that he’d rather not enter public discourse.
