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  • I read the article. It’s not the best prose, but it’s well-sourced, and I didn’t detect any falsehoods. The article doesn’t excuse or condone, and least of all does it encourage, violence toward Jews. It simply describes, among other things, prevailing attitudes toward Israel, and the actions thereof, among Canadian Jews.

    Accurately describing the attitudes held by Canadian Jews toward Israel does not constitute anti-Semitism. Identifying as a Jew does not give anyone a free pass to support genocide without being subject to criticism.

    Claiming that criticism of Zionism will inevitably lead to anti-Semitism is transparently fallacious. Zionism is a political ideology, not a religion or an ethnicity. Based on the available data, conflating Zionism with Judaism will only serve to increase anti-Jewish sentiment in Canada, and presumably elsewhere. If that isn’t your goal, you’re going about things the wrong way.



  • Zionism isn’t a religion. Zionism != Judaism. Zionists != Jews. People are responsible for their own political beliefs and advocacy. They aren’t an immutable trait. Conflating Zionism and Judaism is anti-Semitic. Painting all critics of Zionist ideology as anti-Semites is, in itself, anti-Semitic.

    By pretending all criticism of the Israeli government is directed at Jewish people in general, you are playing into the hands of both Netanyahu, and white supremacists. People who support genocidal regimes deserve criticism. Just as Muslims would rightly be criticized if they proclaimed their support for ISIL/ISIS, and Christians for any number of heinous crimes committed under Christian auspices, so too Jewish people are not immune from criticism for supporting genocide, purely on the basis of their religion or ethnicity.

    Is neonazi infiltration of leftist spaces under the cover of anti-Zionism a problem? Of course, and it’s one that requires constant vigilance to detect and defeat. But that’s not what I see you doing daily, across the fediverse. Instead, you habitually conflate criticism of Israel’s genocidal actions with attacks on Jewish people in general, and by doing so, you only further the agenda of those who want everyone to make the same associations.