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This is the problem, you're talking about people, not crimes. Talk about the crime. Genocide is a crime. Enabling genocide is less clear. I voted for Biden, does that make me a genocide enabler? The factory worker who builds aluminum shells for bombs? The Israeli school child making care packages for soldiers as a school project?
When you reduce people to a single crime, it's easier to paint with a wide brush, and it becomes easier to decide that all need to be punished equally. It's like the people who call Hamas "terrorists" and decide all Hamas supporters deserve death. Treating all "Zionists" the same lends credence to the very argument that Israel is using to justify its own genocide. So are you a genocide enabler?
I've been called a Zionist for saying that Israel exists. I don't support the Israeli government, I don't support the genocide, I don't support my country supporting it, and I don't support the claim over the land. But a professor 20 miles from my house thinks I am the same as a violent racist.
That's how you lose the high ground. You talk about people as criminals, and say they are bad people. All people have the capacity to be good or bad, but most people are just trying to survive the circumstances of their existence. It is their actions, their choices, that are good or bad, and if we focus on that, we can help people do better. Bad choices can be improved. Bad people can only be killed.
I'm not reducing them to anything. This is what they are. Genocidal colonists and genocide enablers. Just because some of them are more polite or friendly doesn't change it. Saying anything else is just an insult to Jews like this professor who are from all over the world and have the guts to call them out on it.
Genocide is just about the worst crime we have a name for. So, what should be done with genocide enablers? Do they deserve death? Torture? Do they deserve civil rights? A chance to vote? Should they be denied healthcare? Denied commercial services? Should they be denied an education? Or are they merely deserving of scorn and to be ostracized? What's the punishment for all the genocide enablers who are as bad as racists and murderers?
Let's throw them a parade.