Give the horrors of the Holocaust and how it has been weaponized to keep States and people from criticizing that country it has been a slow and difficult journey to get to the point of calling Israel out as behaving the same or even worse than the German Nazis. However, I am seeing more and more writers and activists referring to Israel that way. The first time I said this to a small group of older Jewish men I knew I was setting myself up for real anger and hate from them. Just using the word sent shivers through them which I understood but was so pissed off at how they claimed to be humanists but kept apologizing for Israel which was really just an excuse for its rotten genocidal behavior.
People need to look hard at their emotional baggage on such issues and separate them from what we are seeing. Even in the US it is so hard to refer to the power elites as supporting of totalitarianism and Nazi policies and practices.
Give the horrors of the Holocaust and how it has been weaponized to keep States and people from criticizing that country it has been a slow and difficult journey to get to the point of calling Israel out as behaving the same or even worse than the German Nazis. However, I am seeing more and more writers and activists referring to Israel that way. The first time I said this to a small group of older Jewish men I knew I was setting myself up for real anger and hate from them. Just using the word sent shivers through them which I understood but was so pissed off at how they claimed to be humanists but kept apologizing for Israel which was really just an excuse for its rotten genocidal behavior.
People need to look hard at their emotional baggage on such issues and separate them from what we are seeing. Even in the US it is so hard to refer to the power elites as supporting of totalitarianism and Nazi policies and practices.
Thank you for your bravery in thought as well as your action attempting to have an honest conversation with the Jewish men.