As the McCarthyite fever that’s hit US institutions in recent weeks continues surging, the question remains: Is there an actual coherent, consistent standard for what is and isn’t acceptable to say about Israel’s war in Gaza? Or are there two standards — one that harshly deals with critics of Israel’s war according to the most ungenerous interpretation of their words, and another that allows supporters of the war to utter whatever they want without any pushback?

So far, it’s looking like the second one.

The focal point of this McCarthyite climate has now migrated from universities and media to Hollywood. Several actors and others have recently lost jobs or been dropped by their agencies for criticizing the Israeli military campaign, which has now killed more than fifteen thousand people in less than two months, the overwhelming number of them civilians, including a chilling six thousand children.