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-

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.