I grit my teeth when various members of Congress and academics excoriate Putin’s actions in Ukraine, with nary a word about the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide. Not to my surprise, I was branded a Putin lover when I opined that Netanyahu is far worse than Putin, but my critics were strangely silent when I asked them to compare Kyiv to Rafah. With a pitiful number of exceptions, U.S. politicians are owned by Israel, and America has become Israel’s client state - not the reverse.

I will never apologize for voting against every candidate who backed Israel. And I will never understand why my First Amendment rights are being taken away for daring to criticize a genocidal, apartheid regime, when I’m free to criticize every country in the world, including my own.