antisemitism was alive and well for most of western history
So was anti-Teutonism and anti-Sinoism and anti-Americanism for that matter. I’m not sure you can absolve the Jewish state of its crimes by pointing to a rival clan of bigots.
seeing Israel starve a bunch of children in Gaza make me hate Israel / IDF, not the Jewish baker down the street.
Part of the problem with Zionism (and other ultra-nationalist movements), is how it deliberately works to draw sharp lines between people globally in order to justify horrifying colonial violence locally. I’ve got Jewish neighbors and family who are very weird on Israel specifically, because they’ve considered a Jewish State a source of pride for so much of their lives. You can’t really address the Gaza Genocide without getting an earful about how Palestinians started it and Arabs deserve it.
In the same way, seeing my state government persecute trans people and black/hispanic minorities can’t mentally be divorced from a Texas baker down the street waving a little Trump flag.
Well, the Trump flag changes a lot. It’s like the Jewish baker having “death to Arabs” on his window. But then your feelings are not about race or ethnicity, it’s about the beliefs that person have.
So was anti-Teutonism and anti-Sinoism and anti-Americanism for that matter. I’m not sure you can absolve the Jewish state of its crimes by pointing to a rival clan of bigots.
Part of the problem with Zionism (and other ultra-nationalist movements), is how it deliberately works to draw sharp lines between people globally in order to justify horrifying colonial violence locally. I’ve got Jewish neighbors and family who are very weird on Israel specifically, because they’ve considered a Jewish State a source of pride for so much of their lives. You can’t really address the Gaza Genocide without getting an earful about how Palestinians started it and Arabs deserve it.
In the same way, seeing my state government persecute trans people and black/hispanic minorities can’t mentally be divorced from a Texas baker down the street waving a little Trump flag.
Well, the Trump flag changes a lot. It’s like the Jewish baker having “death to Arabs” on his window. But then your feelings are not about race or ethnicity, it’s about the beliefs that person have.
Given the state of Israeli foreign policy, it’s not hard to read their flag that way.
Beliefs informed by the family race and ethnicity
So… racism?