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I’m Jewish. I’ve seen a lot of antisemitism in my life. I’m now watching Israel destroy what took it and its allies years to build in the Middle East. If anyone is stoking antisemitism it is Israel and its supporters. It’s hard to love a country that has killed 35,000 plus Palestinian civilians in retaliation for the admittedly horrible Hamas attack that killed 1,200 plus Israelis. That’s 70,000+ Palestinian eyes for 2,400+ Israeli eyes. Hardly fair by biblical standards. The well funded repres…
thank you. well said. One can be anti the horrific war in Gaza without being antisemitic. And simultaneously be horrified by what Hamas did on Oct. 7th. The right's portrayal of this as binary - If you're anti-the-war you must also be antisemitic / if you are pro-Israel you must be in favor of killing Palestinians - is ridiculous and shallow and clouds the deeper, more complicated history and makes it easier for people to yell at each other and feel self-righteous.
It's just plain lazy to take an either/or position, ie. either you're antisemitic if you oppose Israel's over the top response to Hama's attack or you're anti-Palestinian if you support Israel's right to defend itself. When we take sides on this issue, we're just mirroring what the combatants are doing, that is demonizing one side or the other. Would that the world would pressure both sides to stop killing each other. I wonder if there will ever be a time when people stop using their religion (my god is better than your god) to justify slaughtering those who don't share their beliefs.