The thing about the Palestine exception is if you can’t defend freedom of speech/academia/thought etc. on that issue, you’re probably gonna fold pretty easily on every other topic, too.
I don't really think you can separate Bari Weiss' specific and unique devotion to the issue of sanewashing Israeli apartheid from what she does at the Free Press and CBS. Not everything is actually conspiratorial, she is actually pretty proud of this part of her political activity?