Let’s put it this way. I’d rather send money to North Korea than give a cent to an Israeli business. I wish they’d get served the same dose of humility that made Germany ashamed to make any display of national pride, such as openly waving the flag, for many decades.
But given who their closest ally is, many more people have to die before that wretched country finds a healthier way forward.
All my solidarity to the Jewish people that disavow any connection with the state of Israel. Your voices aren’t loud enough.
The majority of the population in Israel supports this. And the horrifying and surprising thing to me is that a number of my American Jewish friends will just say "they feel conflicted", while their parents (in their 60s by now) overwhelmingly support Israel. Obviously this is anecdotal but I still found it shocking. The scary thing is that this unhinged behavior will only lead to more antisemitism and violence directed back at them. It's so obviously counterproductive from my perspective as someone who hasn't had Israeli indoctrination. We're in a seriously dangerous moment but of course this has been building since the 40s when the country was founded on brutal dispossession and racial superiority.
What is the alternative that Israelis could support instead? Just ignore Hezbollah's attacks? Give up on returning to their homes and schools in northern Israel?
Our voices aren’t loud enough because we are fucking terrified.
Look through this thread and see how many people broadly label Jews - not Israelis, not Zionists, but Jews - as the problem.
I am incredibly opposed to Israel’s evil actions, but I can’t stand to be part of the conversation because of the profound Jewish hate. Opposing Israel is not antisemitic, but these things I have seen written or heard stated, from left leaning Americans, in the last several years definitely are:
> Free Palestine, Kill all Jews
> Save a life, kill a local colonizer
> Hitler should have killed them all when he had the chance
> Zionist propaganda (in response to me saying the above occurred)
> Jewish people in this country (US) should be afraid
I’m not going to come back and read this comment, because I have utter certainty that in spite of vocally denouncing Israel’s violence, I will either be: accused of being a Zionist, talked down to about how this actually is Jews’ fault, or just straight up responded to with hate.
To be clear you aren’t the problem, what you have said is fine. Someone else is going to respond hatefully though.
These people are insane. They scare Jews out of their country, and where do they think they'll go? They're the same kind of people who think that letting Trump win and glass Gaza will somehow force Democratic voters to choose other candidates in their primaries to save Gazans.
All of their actions are against their stated interests, and if you try to point that out to them, even if you also say that you agree with their end goals, they'll call you a fascist. There is an extremism problem on the left, and while it isn't as big as the extremism problem on the right, it still exists and needs to be solved.
But given who their closest ally is, many more people have to die before that wretched country finds a healthier way forward.
All my solidarity to the Jewish people that disavow any connection with the state of Israel. Your voices aren’t loud enough.