"My issue is that there is little-to-no discerning between Jewish and Israeli"
Agreed. This is a serious problem. Sadly, collectivism is at the root of all bigotry. In case it's not crystal clear, my criticisms of Israel are criticisms of the Israeli government's actions. Not of Jewish people, either in Israel or anywhere else in the worl…
"My issue is that there is little-to-no discerning between Jewish and Israeli"
Agreed. This is a serious problem. Sadly, collectivism is at the root of all bigotry. In case it's not crystal clear, my criticisms of Israel are criticisms of the Israeli government's actions. Not of Jewish people, either in Israel or anywhere else in the world.
But the same is true of my criticisms of Palestine and especially of Hamas. I'm criticising those bodies, and not the Palestinians people or Muslims in general. There's a lack of differentiation here too in many cases.
Again, yes, I recognise the existence of Israel. But that isn't quite the same as recognising a "right" to exist. I'm not sure what that means in the context of a country. Is it about the name? The borders? The current government or cultural norms?
Israel *does* exist. And I have no stronger feelings about that than I have about the existence of any other country. But the question of its rights to additional territory in that region or the land theft that is taking place in what's left of Palestine is quite different. As is the question of God-given rights to a region.
As I've said many times before, there are bad, antisemitic reasons for some of the criticism Israeli faces. But there are also good, human-rights violating reasons.
"My issue is that there is little-to-no discerning between Jewish and Israeli"
Agreed. This is a serious problem. Sadly, collectivism is at the root of all bigotry. In case it's not crystal clear, my criticisms of Israel are criticisms of the Israeli government's actions. Not of Jewish people, either in Israel or anywhere else in the world.
But the same is true of my criticisms of Palestine and especially of Hamas. I'm criticising those bodies, and not the Palestinians people or Muslims in general. There's a lack of differentiation here too in many cases.
Again, yes, I recognise the existence of Israel. But that isn't quite the same as recognising a "right" to exist. I'm not sure what that means in the context of a country. Is it about the name? The borders? The current government or cultural norms?
Israel *does* exist. And I have no stronger feelings about that than I have about the existence of any other country. But the question of its rights to additional territory in that region or the land theft that is taking place in what's left of Palestine is quite different. As is the question of God-given rights to a region.
As I've said many times before, there are bad, antisemitic reasons for some of the criticism Israeli faces. But there are also good, human-rights violating reasons.