Why say he wasn't one of us? He was human. We are human. "We are part of humanity at the same time we are alone." (R. Soloveitchik) Beyond that he is possibly a righteous gentile. Why at this sad time stress that he wasn't in our club? If he has good values, he is with us. As for liberalism, is it completely empty or does it have problems? Conservatism also has problems.
Answer is, because he is operating a kind of cult. Us vs them where we are the ones with meaning. They have nothing. That's a cult.
As for freedom speech, Israel is more the cause of suppression of speech than anything else. But R. Berkowitz isn't going to say that or even consider it.
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