Anonymous wrote:I’m not Jewish, and I don’t think of myself as someone who reflexively hypothesizes antisemitism, and I thought some of the Ted Cruz interview was entertainingly cringe.
BUT: the rate at which people criticize Israel, ignore the normalization of actual Nazis, and make comments about AIPAC etc. has surprised me, and it makes me think that more people around me than I realized have at least a twinge of antisemitic bias to them. I just do not get it.
None of your examples (except the nazi one) are anti-jewish. Unless you're conflating jew-ish-ness to be part and parcel to Israel. I will warn you that tethering yourself to a racist, apartheid, war crimes, ethnostate is a double edged sword however. Just the fact that certain Americans don't care that Israel actively spies on corporations as well as politicians and intelligence agencies with thousands of operatives is telling. This is literally the least offensive thing Israel does in America.
No other "ally" does this to America. There are plenty of patriotic jews in this country who call out the bs but they're not platformed; because there are even more non-jews who are paid foreign operatives for Israel shilling out propoganda and lies. This bs would be called out if the same arguments were used to defend Britain, Canada, or even America, itself.
For example, if America were to randomly bomb people because it felt like it... oh wait, that's right. They're doing that to a few boats in South America and they're screaming war crimes on Chump and Hegseth. Hell, even you are probably standing with me at the front of this lynch mob.
Distrust (or even hatred) of Israel is not an anti-jewish thing. It's a human rights issue. Why you think they get a pass is crazy. At least a dozen Israeli leaders should be in the Hague and the IDF should be disbanded because it's not a professional army but a bunch of thugs that commit war crimes daily.