It might be worth emphasizing that in USA the vast majority of zionists are christian.

It's painful to look at my copy of Maus. Nothing was learned. And Spiegelman is very omissive, like a smarter zionist would be.

this feels really troubling and i wonder if it's because they're ignorant of what colonialism did in the past?

This does not surprise me at all. Serbs have the same attitude regarding their shit that happened not too long ago. Ethnic wars are really something else. People switch off their intelligence and go with the crowd.

This sort of approach is a really dangerous way of thinking because it's literally stereotyping just based on statistical majorities.

I was born and raised in Tennessee, a deep red state that voted for Trump by a nearly 2/3 majority in 2024. However, even in such an environment, one in three Tennesseans is still a significant number of people. There are several cities in the state where the demographics lean in the opposite direction, to say nothing of specific circles. I was reluctant to leave the state because I had several friend groups with actually cool people, many of them queer, and finding such people can be a breath of fresh air, and a reassurance of sanity.

If you were to conduct a similar analysis of Tennesseans you would no doubt conclude that we are "NOT oppressed" because there are strong majorities that support right-wing politics. And if the point of your analysis is just to show broad trends, then sure. My home is an absolute cesspool of reaction, I won't deny that. But you'd also be ignoring the experiences of minority groups and voices that just happen to be included in that label by accident of birth. I think that if someone were to label me a dumb hick or redneck or whatever based on that, they'd be out of line.

The point isn't my specific example but that I think just about everyone belongs to some demographic group where the majority in said group has problematic views. When I see a group like the Jewish Voices for Peace going against the majority view, I can connect that to my own experiences being outspoken in the South, and I think it's worth recognizing and celebrating them.

The distinction between Jews and Zionists is also important for political reasons. If the problem is people being Zionists, that is something that they can change, and it's a political project that can be subverted in any number of ways. If the problem is people being Jews, they can't stop being Jewish. So what solution does that imply? In addition to including people it shouldn't, talking about Jews rather than Zionists also lets non-Jewish Zionists off the hook, for similarly no reason except accident of birth.

On the other hand, what are the advantages of ditching the distinction? Satisfying some people's base urges to be more discriminatory and inflammatory? As far as I'm concerned, the sort of person who needs to be disciplined on that point is already dangerous and unreliable, and this sort of "populist" tendency to redirect class analysis to racial bullshit needs to be nipped in the bud immediately and consistently.

This does not convince me because they're ultimately asking AMERICANs, BRITISH and CANADIANs. Of course they're overwhelmingly zionists, maybe ask jews in other countries that are not literally the belly of the beast lol.

why does the Western “pro-Palestine” movement spend so much time and energy doing free PR for Jews?

Because, by the numbers you yourself quoted, there are 10-20% of Jews who are not Zionists. If, in future, there is a reaction to Zionism, it should not result in antijewish attacks on all Jews.

I'm always confused about the "so what" of articles like this. What is the actual political program that follows from these findings? The article's conclusion talks about the "Western left" changing its approach to "centering voices". Okay. So what does that mean practically for the left? Are they arguing for decentering Jewish anti-Zionist voices as "non representative"? Like, what's the actual ask here, what's the program?

The people attempting to make excuses for this or who try and question the motives of the original author are revealing themselves either to be zionist or gullible enough to have fallen for the zionist counter-insurgency against the anti-Israel movement. Personally, if a poll came out on the worldwide opinion of white people on white nationalism and showed an overwhelming support for these things across multiple countries, no one here would be making these kinds of arguments. If 92% of white Canadians were revealed to be neo-nazis, very few non-neo-nazis would shy away from saying something about it. If 87% of white South Africans were found to claim that apartheid isn’t racist and 85% identified themselves as white nationalists, no one here would be trying to defend that or be playing PR defence for them. It's a double standard that exists only as a PR cudgel for the Zionist project. We don't need to centre the voice of the oppressor, we must however centre the voice of the very people they are trying to exterminate, which is the overwhelmingly non-Jewish Palestinian population.