Joy Reid Instagram – This is insane. So now politicians are joining reactionary college administrations in criminalizing the mere mention of or support for a state of #Palestine that is already an observing member of the U.N. How do you criminalize the mere mention of a state or a people??? . Repost from @aymanm • A Florida state representative says he will punish entities from countries that recognize “Palestine” as a state after Ireland, Spain and Norway announced they will be doing so. Never mind you that 143 countries already recognize Palestine as a state. Never mind you that official American foreign policy is to establish an independent Palestinian state. He also equates the recognition and support of a Palestinian state as “support for Muslim terrorism” which warrants consequences that we have used against so-called “Muslim terrorism” in the past… actions that have included torture, rendition, sexual abuse, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detention. Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian hatred and bigotry are so normalized among American politicians that they don’t even get noticed or make news. Sure no one has ever heard of this representative but the fact that he harbors such hate and bigotry and openly flaunts it shows you the impunity that him and others like him operate with. These are people who make laws that affect tens of millions of constituents.