'We find this rhetorical tactic antithetical to Jewish values, which teach us to repair the world, question authority, and champion the oppressed over the oppressor.'
Israel the nation, government and military is an apartheid state currently committing genocide. This statement passes no judgement on the vast majority of the Israeli people and especially no judgement on Judaism and Jewish people as a whole.
Anyone trying to conflate the two are just trying to apologize for genocide.
To the same end, when there’s news about increased antisemitism, you can’t automatically dismiss it as just criticism of Israel. That’s making the exact same conflation.
Israel the nation, government and military is an apartheid state currently committing genocide. This statement passes no judgement on the vast majority of the Israeli people and especially no judgement on Judaism and Jewish people as a whole.
Anyone trying to conflate the two are just trying to apologize for genocide.
Yeah but why didn’t all of the Palestinian children vote out Hamas 16 years ago? Checkmate atheist
Even better why didn’t they just not get armed and end up like the West bank, it has been going great for people there.
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I wouldn’t use the word nation here because it denotes the people. State is better.
To the same end, when there’s news about increased antisemitism, you can’t automatically dismiss it as just criticism of Israel. That’s making the exact same conflation.
Well, the Israeli government is nominally democratic. People supposedly voted for these leaders.
It’s import to draw distinction, yes. But that government doesn’t exist in a vacuum,
What country are you from FuglyDucky? Do you live in a democracy? Should you be held to account for everything your country’s government does?