r/JewsOfConscience Sep 22 '24

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u/wandrin_star Sep 22 '24

Palestinians are asked to distinguish between Israel’s culpability for apartheid, violence, and genocide against them and Jewish people’s culpability for Israeli apartheid/violence/genocide, specifically not blaming Jewish people & thus becoming antisemites. Meanwhile Israelis and many Jewish people around the world are constantly conflating the cause of Israel and the actions of the Israeli government with the safety & ongoing existence of Jewish people, using any threat of violence against Jews anywhere as a pretext for Israeli atrocities against Gaza and The West Bank, and reading the support of a majority of Jews for the colonialist Zionist project as justification for it being necessary for Jewish survival.

It’s hypocritical in the extreme for Jews to hold Palestinians to a higher standard of anti-antisemitism than either Israeli spokespeople or AIPAC are held to.

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u/Adept_Thanks_6993 Orthodox Sep 23 '24

I interpreted the bit in isolation. I read the rest of the article, and it makes sense.