Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-NJ, and Mike Lawler, R-NY, discuss Israeli PM Netanyahu's speech to Congress and the vandalism at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station following Netanyahu’s speech.
Images of protesters burning American flags are always divisive. But the scenes emerging from demonstrations in Washington during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress were especially so, given some protesters’ open support of Hamas. Equally predictable? The immediate calls to ban and punish flag burning that arose as criticism of the protests snowballed.
At its core, what’s at stake here is the right of people across the political spectrum to express deeply unpopular political views and be free of retaliation from the government they are criticizing. Flag burners are rarely sympathetic free speech test cases for many Americans, but distaste for the incendiary way they express their opposition to the government should not lull us into accepting censorship rules that would be more at home in China or Russia than in a free country.
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