This'll be a brutal week for Jews, maybe a brutal month or much more, and there's a small-to-medium chance this could be the final divorce between progressives and Jews.
For all we know, Bibi Netanyahu deliberately provoked something to keep his power, but Bibi, horrible as he is, has done nothing to shake that ultimate commitment. Whatever happens, I know that Israel did what it could with arguably the shittiest hand ever dealt a nation, and a hundred times over it's a miracle it still exists. I have no qualms supporting a state lead by a quasi-authoritarian to keep something much deadlier at bay.
Insofar as I have a religion, totalitarianism is the devil itself - a cult that longs for death and murder. People who preach absolutes of freedom and equality but lend their support to regimes like Hamas or even the PA are hypocrites at the highest level. I know where I stand on totalitarianism, zionism, fundamentalism, and deliberate provocations in bad faith. And I know exactly where most of you stand too.
Just because you criticize Israel does not mean you are uncomfortable with Jews, and in that sense, most of you are not antisemites - though believing Israel is genocidal or shouldn't exist skirts the line. And if microaggressions are an indication of racism, then singling Israel out for criticism is most definitely racist; fortunately for you, I don't believe microaggressions exist and you can believe whatever you want no matter how stupid, so long as you don't mind me being aggressive back at you.
However, most who go after zionism or Israel's alleged imperialism rather than detailed critiques of policy are uncomfortable with Judaism. There is no daylight between Zionism and Judaism, so many of you are deeply anti-Judaism. There is no planet on which that is any more forgivable.
Am Yisrael Chai.
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