Free speech champions explain why it's OK that people are being cancelled for criticizing Israel

As academics, celebrities and politicians face backlash and loss of work for condemning Israel’s bombing of the Gaza strip and treatment of Palestinians in general, we asked a number of people who have previously bemoaned “cancel culture” and “the death of free speech” why they’re totally fine with this.

"Even free speech has limits. I mean you wouldn't yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre when there isn't one. And you wouldn't suggest that a decades (really centuries) old conflict involving religion, colonialism and capitalism is more complicated than just 'Hamas bad. Must be destroyed.'"
"I guess it never occured to me that there would be a controversial position that I didn't like."
"It's Antisemitic to verbally attack Israel. Just like it was Antiboeric to protest South Africa in the 1980s."
"There's simply no comparison between someone ACCIDENTALLY saying a racial slur and someone INTENTIONALLY using the word Apartheid to accurately describe what Israel is doing according to the legal definition of the word."
"Seeing people take down posters of the Israel citizens being held hostage in Gaza just made me sick and angry in a way that I'm confident Palestinian-Canadians don't feel when hearing their countrymen described as terrorists or being forced to watch Israeli settlers celebrate as they take over their homes."
"What we're doing isn't Cancel Culture. I mean none of the people fired for criticizing Israel have even been interviewed on Joe Rogan or made millions off Patreon yet so you can't say they've been truly cancelled."
"Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. It just means the government doesn't stop you from saying what you want. Unlike in Israel where the government is absolutely stopping people from expressing their opposition to the bombing."
"The difference is I don't secretly agree with the pro-Palestinian folks the way I did with all the people caught saying anti-Black or anti-Indigenous racist things."