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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m Jewish, and it’s been incredibly hard for me to villainize Israel. I was raised to see Israel as a vision of pride and strength for a people—my people—who had been victimized over and over again.

But even I can’t deny it anymore. The country and its government have changed. I grew up with Rabin and Clinton and Arafat and hopes of  peace. But that is all lost.

It’s terrible. Oh the other hand, I feel like this has also led to so much anti-semitism. It’s been awful for the perception of American Jews. But when you hear people use words like “zios” as slurs it doesn’t exactly make you feel welcome in joining any kind of peace movement.

I’ve just resigned myself to keeping my mouth shut and privately hating what Israel is doing but also not being horrified at the people calling for Israel’s total destruction. [/quote]

Excluding those individuals who are ACTUALLY anti-semitic, which I’d wager is less than 10% of those who are accused of being so, there’s good news.

The remaining 90%+ are individuals genuinely appalled and outraged by Israel’s policies and actions. They are genuinely appalled and outraged by radical, extremist Zionists in Israel and especially here in the U.S. They are genuinely appalled and outraged by flagrant conflicts of interest in our government officials setting U.S. foreign policy. They are especially appalled and outraged by the corruption of our political class by AIPAC, Betar, Canary Mission, and other anti-American individuals and groups acting entirely in the interest of a foreign nation.

And yes, they are also genuinely appalled and outraged by the policies and actions of Hamas, and other instances of the Palestinian people working against their own interests at times over the years.

But these are war crimes and this is a genocide underway.

HOWEVER, the instant any Jewish person disavows in unequivocal terms what’s been occurring in Israel for decades, and especially over the past 18 months, there’s absolutely no judgement, animus, hostility, whatever. None.

It’s understood that not all Jewish people are radical, extremist Zionists. In fact, it’s understood that the majority of radical, extremist Zionists are not even Jewish - the majority are racist, fake “Christian” POS mouth breathers here in the U.S. And my guess is that less than 50% of the Jewish people in Israel and less than 25% of them here in the U.S. are incapable of thinking rationally about Israel and its actions. The rest may love what Israel represented to their parents as a Jewish homeland, but they get that something very wrong is occurring.

The fact is that no nation has a right to exist (including Israel, the U.S., and every other nation). No nation has a right to “preemptive self-defense”. There is zero equivocating on those points. None. In recent times, Israel has attempted to transform its right to defend itself (which all nations should have, yet Israel blatantly argues is reserved for them only) into a “right to exist”. It’s usually the only time they respect the authority of the U.N. But that attempt will NEVER be successful.

Nevertheless, the vast majority of critics of Israel are not calling for it to cease to exist or for Israelis to be “annihilated” anyway. The vast majority are not calling for the “total destruction” of Israel.

But they are calling for massive systemic reform in Israel. They are calling for humanitarian restraint in a “war” where one side is actually being “annihilated” and it ain’t the Jewish people. They are calling for an end to the violence on both sides and a sustainable plan forward, where the status of the Palestinian people is finally settled, whether one-state or two-state solution.

And importantly, they are calling for real accountability for those in Israel who are committing these war crimes. They should face unforgiving justice. And real accountability for those in Israel and here in the U.S. who enabled these war crimes, funded them, and defended them while tens of thousands of innocent, non-combatant refugees were slaughtered.

You may not feel welcome joining a peace movement, and the decision to join would be your choice anyway. But I think you are playing a very important role by acknowledging Israel’s sins. That alone is a gesture of peace in my book.[/quote]

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