I am going to keep pounding this into people: It is shit like this that makes antisemitism worse. Israel claiming the Jewish label for itself makes it worse. The U.S. government saying criticizing Israel is itself antisemitism makes it worse. Israel and the U.S. government make things less safe for me through this genocide by emboldening bigots.
As someone who grew up in New Jersey, which has one of the world’s largest Jewish populations, so very much this. It was very befuddling to me when I realized that people conflate the two.
I had a number of Jewish friends growing up and none of their families associated themselves with Israel. They were practicing Jews (most of them, anyway), but that has nothing to do with some faraway land.
I am going to keep pounding this into people: It is shit like this that makes antisemitism worse. Israel claiming the Jewish label for itself makes it worse. The U.S. government saying criticizing Israel is itself antisemitism makes it worse. Israel and the U.S. government make things less safe for me through this genocide by emboldening bigots.
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Right now we have to fight the federal government for the Palestinians and in the near future we may well have to fight Nazis for the Jews.
As someone who grew up in New Jersey, which has one of the world’s largest Jewish populations, so very much this. It was very befuddling to me when I realized that people conflate the two.
I had a number of Jewish friends growing up and none of their families associated themselves with Israel. They were practicing Jews (most of them, anyway), but that has nothing to do with some faraway land.