I want to write about something more important, but before I do we have to clear up one important distinction:

 I want to write about something more important, but before I do we have to clear up one important distinction:

People say that there is a division of the Jewish consensus. Perhaps that's true in the fine print, but on the main issue, the community remains unshaken. The opposition to Zionism is an increasingly vocal minority, and increasingly large, but it is still only 10-20% of Jews. A significant portion of this 10-20% are alienated from their roots, and always were. They only feel Jewish when it's time to oppose Israel. Parochial Judaism has always been an embarrassment for them, and as our generation radicalizes, it's increasingly clear that some people of Jewish extraction would be embarrassed even if Israel acted unimpeachably liberal. Israel is a constant reminder of their fear that a part of their friends will always suspect them of being less cosmopolitan than they seem.

The vast majority of younger Jews are still Zionist, and that is unshaken. Sadly, the real divide is 'how Zionist.' A huge portion of the Jewish community grows more radically Zionist than ever. This is a huge problem and can damn Judaism to a future not unlike its past.

But the reason a huge portion of the Jewish community has radicalized to the right is that Judaism is increasingly orthodox and Mizrachi (meaning families originally from the Middle East and Iran). The reason the orthodox believe in Israel is obvious, but the Mizrachim are even more important. They now make up 50% of Jews in Israel: think about that for a moment. The most conservative block in Israel, the block responsible for holding Netanyahu in power, is a community of color! Why are they particularly militant? Because their grandparents were thrown out of Arab countries after 1948 in their own Naqba that exiled 850,000 Jews from their homelands. Nobody talks about this. Nobody cares. I leave the mental gymnastics for why that is to your imaginations.

Ideologues inevitably run into trouble with Jews. They insist the world is simple. These ideologues may be intersectional socialist, alt-right conservative, radical communist and/or fascist, leftist Christians and conservative Islamists, but they all have three things in common: 1. They insist their own solutions apply to the world entire. 2. They insist their solutions can never wait. 3. They all have problems with Israel. We Jews obviously have our own problem with ideologues, and if we don't rein them in we're gonna get killed for centuries hence. Ideologues, Jewish or goyish, get Jews killed because they confuse emotion with thought. The world, however, is more complicated than your feelings.

Anti-Zionists are not liberal Jews. They may be liberals, but they're not Jews. They may be Jews, but they're not liberals. Jews not sure about Zionism are welcome, but anti-Zionists are not part of our community; between liberal Jews and they comes a dimensional doorway of perception which can only be opened by rejecting anti-Zionism. You only get a say when you come to the table.

Sometimes, my anger at unconscious antisemitism clouded my judgement. I assumed people were more conscious of their antisemitic biases than they were, but they assumed they had none. It's 2025, no other minority is asked to put up with this shit, and Jews are simply supposed to carry the whole burden: the one minority in the world whose worst conduct has no reason but sinister machinations. Our only reliable allies are the very conservatives so many of us worked so hard to defeat.

The world is full of unconscious biases of which none of us can keep track. History reveals more to us with every generation. But those of you who call this a genocide, ask yourselves: you obviously assume that you're free of unconscious bias about this issue. You hold Israel accountable without holding Jews accountable. Nearly 100% of you believe that Judaism and Zionism are separate phenomenon. Yet how many among you hold the American Jewish community partially responsible for this imbroglio by supporting Israel? How many of you hold British Jews accountable? Canadian? French? How many of you hold that you cannot have any criticism of Israel without being accused of antisemitism even as ninety percent of your friends unimpededly vent with you about the same frustration? How can all this be unless you view Judaism and Israel as the same as much as we do?

This is not conscious antisemitism, but it is antisemitic bias: an unconscious phenomenon, a historical vestige from a previous era's attitudes by which real people don't realize the consequences of their thoughts. It holds the Jewish community responsible for what you claim is the actions of only Israel. How can you separate Israel from Jews when 90% of worldwide Jewry is Zionist?