We reject antisemitism in all its forms, including when it masquerades as criticism of Zionism or Israel’s policies. We also recognise that, as journalist Peter Beinart wrote in 2019, “Anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemitic—and claiming it is uses Jewish suffering to erase Palestinian experience.”

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    The fact that this even requires saying is a testament to how thoroughly drenched the (so-called) “west” is in regurgitated pro-Israeli propaganda.

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      Israel itself is drenched in a culture of racist anti-Palestinian tropes, and denial of the ethnic cleansing called the Nakba.

      The crimes of the Third Reich are invoked disingenuously to construct a counterfactual demonization of the Palestinian people.

      Meanwhile, Jews in the West are often antagonized in their communities and families if they challenge the prevailing dogma.

      There is a soft but tragic irony, that many liberal Jews feel free to approach their religious heritage critically and skeptically, but any who question political doctrine are greeted as heretics.

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        So they have to bomb hospitals and refugee camps, or the terrorists win?

        It wasn’t a viable excuse after 9/11, it’s not a viable excuse after 10/7 either.

        There is no easy answer, especially not one involving indiscriminate killing of civilians. From the IDF or Hamas.