The attempt by Netanyahu and his far-right allies to get us all to conflate a dislike of them and their actions with a dislike of Jews is one of the most antisemitic messages around. They are the ones who are trying to taint people’s understanding of Jewishness itself by associating it with being a belligerent, murderous asshole, and they do it with utter disrespect for Jewish identity, for Jews who disagree with them, and for the damage this could do to Jewish people’s lives and other people’s understanding of Jews. If you want to resist antisemitism, resist the cynical, self-serving and short-sighted messaging of Netanyahu and his friends.
If there’s one upside of Israel’s actions in the last year, it’s that this gap between attitudes to Israel and attitudes to Jewishness, and the distortion Israel’s government attempts by painting its critics as antisemites, have become much clearer to people around the world. They have been so heavy-handed about it that people are now less likely to conflate these things.
Non Israeli Jews have some soul search to do about their relationship to the Israel.
Blind support by got us here… And not just from the Jews either.
How are my goy friends more Zionist than I am? When’s the last time that letting a government shape policy in the name of religion ended well?
And they are not in it for support of Jews. They are not Israeli Jews’ friends. They want the temple rebuilt so that the second coming happens, which will lead to the rapture, leaving Jews to languish in Armageddon.
One of them frequently used to say to me “first to the Jew.” I had to explain how incredibly uncomfortable that made me.
Heartland American Christian fundies… Holy baby Jesus… These clowns are more Zionist then the Israeli regime.
I don’t understand how that even happened but even every American jew went anti Israel. Politically it wouldn’t change much for US support IMHO.
Not every American Jew. *side eyes my own family and about half of my community*
