Words can’t describe how often I’ve seen the word ‘Jew’ almost literally crossed out and replaced with ‘Israel,’ and then continue with the most obvious antisemitic tropes. Criticism of Israel is absolutely legit, but it’s employed as a cover for antisemitism so damned often.
Cool. That would be a great note if that’s what I were doing.
I’m
LITERALLY TALKING ABOUT EXACTLY AND ONLY THE INFLUENCE OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT ON U.S. POLITICS.
As acutely evidenced by <flails hands around at the things happening>. We’re openly sh*tting on our NATO allies and neighboring trade partners. Threatening to annex and invade and economically disembowel them (see: Spain as recently as <checks notes>
today). Meanwhile the U.S. launches a war that the American public didn’t want, wasn’t sold at all to anybody (least of all Congress), and that the maniac President himself spent over a decade extolling as a terrible idea, for which there appears to be absolutely no coherent plan and thus no goal or indication of when it can be considered won, the Israeli Prime Minister has had a hard-on for this for years, and by the U.S. government’s own claims is in no small part because Israel was going to launch an attack whether the U.S. wanted them to or not, despite the fact that the U.S. arms and aids the IDF.
It’s just the most brazen and egregious inversion of priorities, as it relates to the U.S. public, happening right now out in the open, but there are countless weird occurrences of similar outsized priority and cover provided to Israel that demonstrably have not been provided to other allies stretching back decades.
The horrible sh*t and atrocities that
the Israeli government has gotten away with without so much as a sternly worded letter is crazy, and playing the antisemitism card when there’s none actually present just further enables that nonsense.
I am not being antisemitic. I’m not in any way convolving Jewish people with the Israeli government. You did that. Not me. I am clear that they’re entirely distinct entities. Evidenced regularly by the Jewish people in my life who regularly condemn Israel’s actions and influence over American politics.
