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Lilith — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 10:16 PM)
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The Flag America Protects
This week in Washington, D.C., a federal judge made a ruling so shocking, so unprecedented, that it flips the First Amendment on its head. Judge Trevor N. McFadden declared that the Israeli flag — with the Star of David at its center — is not a political symbol at all, but a racial one.
He ruled that tearing it, grabbing it, desecrating it, even in the heat of protest, is not free expression but racial discrimination.
Think about that. In the United States, you can burn the American flag — the Supreme Court has said so for decades. But now, according to this ruling, burning or tearing the Israeli flag could make you guilty of racial hatred. The one national flag protected in American law today isn’t our own. It’s Israel’s.
You can burn the flags of all 50 states. You can torch the American flag all you want. You can burn the flags of the UK or France or Brazil or China.
But not Israel.
The Supreme Court’s Bedrock Principle
The highest court in the land has spoken clearly: you cannot criminalize burning the American flag. In Texas v. Johnson(1989), Justice William Brennan wrote:
“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.”
The following year, in United States v. Eichman (1990), the Court struck down another attempt to ban flag burning, reminding the country that:
“Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered, and worth revering.”
In America, even the Stars and Stripes — the nation’s own sacred symbol — cannot be placed above criticism or protest. That is what freedom means. And yet in 2025, a federal judge just carved out an exception — for a foreign flag.
The case came from dueling protests in D.C. last fall. Kimmara Sumrall, a pro-Israel activist, draped the Israeli flag around her shoulders as a cape. A pro-Palestinian demonstrator yanked it. A police officer saw it and arrested the woman.
The criminal court acquitted her. But Sumrall filed a civil rights lawsuit, backed by the National Jewish Advocacy Center, arguing that this wasn’t just an assault — it was racial discrimination.
Judge McFadden agreed. In his ruling, he wrote:
“Purposefully yanking on an Israeli flag tied around a Jewish person’s neck… is direct evidence of racial discrimination. The Star of David — emblazoned upon the Israeli flag — symbolizes the Jewish race.”
With that, he collapsed the line between a political symbol and a people’s identity. He went so far as to compare attacking the Israeli flag to using the N-word against a Black person.
No other flag in the world has been granted this kind of protection in an American courtroom. Not Britain’s. Not Canada’s. Not Mexico’s. Not even our own. Only Israel’s.
This isn’t about protecting Jewish people from violence. It’s about shielding Israel from protest while it bombs and starves children in Gaza.
One Flag Above All
Let’s be brutally clear. The Israeli flag is now the only national flag in America courts have declared effectively immune from desecration. The Stars and Stripes itself can be burned in the name of protest. Israel’s flag cannot.
That is not constitutional law. That is political favoritism dressed up as civil rights. And it represents a betrayal of the First Amendment.
What in the sugar frosted flakes
is
this ****?
I guess we're also going to turn a blind eye to Bibi's cyber chief arrested in a sting in Las Vegas set up to catch pedos. He gets a ticket back home and retains his freedom and his employment!
This is truly the official upside-down world!
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Steve Lake — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 10:25 PM)
You are taking the bait Lilipad. Steady.steady.
Dont give in to the Candace Owens and Tucker Carlsons of the World. Once you go down that rabbit hole there is no escape for you.
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Lilith — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 10:38 PM)
I didn't read about it or hear about it from Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson.
My umbrage comes from witnessing this hypocrisy. I'm a proponent of free speech. I am not in favour of
compelling
people to use certain language any more than I am of selective protection for other displays of expression. It has to be a two-way street. I am particularly confused that the same respect is not extended to our very own flag.
LOL @ Lilipad
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Steve Lake — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 10:59 PM)
I know you didnt hear it from them. But what you are referring to is being used as fear propaganda by them and millions and millions of Americans are taking the Bait.
I am clear on the issue. No Flags should ever be burned. I disagreed with the Supreme Court on the first place when they allowed it.
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Lilith — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 11:28 PM)
I totally agree with you, and that's why I don't burn flags. Never have. Any flags! But see, that would involve parents raising their children to have basic courtesy and respect. Just based on the news being reported, there's an entire generation of children and young adults being indoctrinated to feel entitled to indulge in whatever they want without caring about others. We have parents and teachers running to defend the children's behaviour,
or
they're the ones teaching them to act out, pitch fits to get attention or constantly reminding them how oppressed they are, all while constantly encouraging them to be divisive and hate America and being American. What makes it worse is that there are never any repercussions.
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/.ㅤ — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 10:42 PM)
It's the same breed of racism you subscribe to with the addition of Jews.
You are running on an inconsistent platform where you demonize every non-white minority under the sun but somehow expect Jews to be exempt from the same xenophobia.
Non-Jewish whites have no reason to make this exception.
If you're going to mass deport anyone who isn't white and Christian that's eventually going to mean Jews.
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TaraDeS — 7 months ago(August 19, 2025 01:07 AM)
Lilith August 19, 2025 12:16 AM
Member since April 16, 2019
https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/the-israeli-flag-just-became-the
*US-American flag
OMG OMG OMG!!!
But to make it even (and you happy) I'll burn the Russian flag next month, babooshka. 🪆
