r/JewsOfConscience • u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist • Jul 22 '24
Discussion Dementia is Disqualifying, but Not Genocide
It's really disturbing to me that dementia is disqualifying for Joe Biden, but him doing a genocide is not. That shows how Palestinians are viewed in America by the political class.
If only Hitler had dementia, maybe we could've gotten rid of him sooner, since the Holocaust wouldn't have been a problem for him with his domestic constituency.
What do others think?
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u/Taarguss Reconstructionist Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24
I think Biden’s Israel stance has had more to do with pressure to get him out than you think. He’s hemorrhaging young voters over this stuff. Party leadership knows this. I’d be surprised if Harris didn’t support a ceasefire and more conditional aid. It’s becoming a more popular position that more mainstream politicians are getting friendlier to.
But also, Biden isn’t personally carrying out a genocide. Netanyahu is. Biden’s enabling it by not withholding US support, but he’d be cool with giving Israel money in any situation regardless of what they’re doing or who’s in charge. He’s uncritical about Israel. He’a been public about how Netanyahu is a problem but he’s from a school of political thought that has aid to Israel as a self evident, non negotiable point, which most Americans also agree with. It’s like being allies with France. Like, of course you support them, why wouldn’t you?
Most Americans don’t even understand the nature of what’s happening in Gaza and they don’t understand that no country on earth gets more money from the US than Israel. They just don’t know that. They do however see a visibly crumbling old man on TV looking like he should be receiving in-home care. There’s so many layers to how all of this is perceived and it all makes a huge difference in what people think is important. It’s not as simple as “we don’t care about Palestinians,” it’s a bigger issue of the public being badly informed about Palestinians and the US establishment being misaligned on Palestinians. Us antizionists are a small minority. We’re can’t expect everyone’s gonna see it the way we do. That’s why we have to keep pushing and speaking up.