Don't become who Netanyahu wants you to become, the only way bigots who rationalize their obsession with violence and subjugation through their fear of everything different than them can keep power in Israel is if they have people they can point to who despise jews in Israel for genuinely antisemitic reasons. This dynamic comes up again and again the longer you consider this tragedy, every action taken by leaders is done to cultivate an equally bigoted resistance in the existential enemy so as to preserve the status quo politics at home.

It is also a mental error to understand this purely as a product of the people living in Israel, this is directly connected to European and US politics and the consequences of them that have been reverberating in the middle east for generations. Support for Israel in the US often centers on christian power centers, not jewish ones and if you don't step back and appreciate the broader context, than you will hyperfocus on jews in Israel being uniquely evil and desiring of Genocide when in reality the Palestinian Genocide expresses the capacity for the systems we have built to produce, back and sustain Genocide even when it is in plain sight for the entire world to see.

The second largest population center of jews on earth is New York City, which just elected Zohran Mamdani, a muslim as mayor and he is extremely popular. None of this has anything to do with the supposed holy words written on books god has handed down to us as guidance and everything to do with geopolitics, colonialism, xenophobia and empire.

Fuck Israel.