In the latest ill-advised ISIS comparison of the last few days, some Twitter activists have begun comparing Israel to the terrorist group using its alternate name, ISIL. The #JSIL hashtag first appeared on Sunday, a day before Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a similarly exaggerated comparison between ISIS and Hamas.

Netanyahu wasn’t quite right, relying on the old “Westerners-get-confused-easily-when-talking-about-the–Middle East” trick. Among other differences, Hamas is (sort of) willing to work within an existing political system and is more of a political party than an aspiring absolute authority.

And yet the other side doesn’t do any better with its leaps of logic. Regardless of your opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and, in particular, whether the extent of force used during this summer’s Operation Protective Edge was justified — it’s not a rogue terror group, slaying everyone who’s different and forcing everyone else to live under a narrow moral code. In the fact of Netanyahu’s own rhetorical stretches, there’s at least room for dissent.

Bibi's lunatic speech: "For sake of Zion, I will not be silent. For sake of Jerusalem, I will not be still." http://t.co/Udb2i8OM73 #JSIL — Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) September 29, 2014

#JSIL has already imposed its jizya on American taxpayers forced to pay $3.1 billion/year to Israel in military aid. Scary stuff. — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) September 29, 2014

Don't tell me I should support #JSIL because it's nicer to gays. It's reductive to what being queer means. — Kaleb Glass (@kglass92) September 30, 2014