Oh boy … no one answered because it is a minefiled. Oh well, here goes.
My issue (can’t speak for anyone else) is not with Jews, it is with Israel. Israel is a created zionist state, and zionism is the idea of creating a homeland “zion” for inhabitation by chosen persons (happens to be Jews, could be any particular self-selecting group). I struggle re. the Israel that has emerged from that thesis on many fronts …
1. its very creation by well meaning apologists post war – conscious of their failure to receive refugees from Nazi Germany in the 30’s and yet failing to recognise the pattern of repetition unfolding (the UK in particular, take a bow)
2. the fact that this was done by displacing the people living there at the time
3. the fact that aggressive expansion by that state has been unchecked by the powerful nations of the world (despite UN general assembly resolutions that it be checked), mainly because the US holds Security Council veto and wants a pro-US strong state in the region
4. the fact that that state is practising the very thing that it was setup to escape from – namely systematic demonising and removal from influence of a sub-populace that is not the ruling populace (the world has seen that before)
5. and now a security wall (the world has seen that before too)
In summary, I do not subscribe to racist or religious superiority and the modern state of Israel has become a defacto exemplar of that.
Would I rather it lost US support and was blasted apart in a bloody war (that would undoubtedly include nukes)? No. We have moved on from 1948, let Israel exist, but let it give back the lands it has usurped since 1967 and allow an independent Palestinian state on its (reduced) borders.
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