#like not to steal valor here I am not Jewish but it’s weird that nobody is vigilant about antisemitism the way they are with other bigotry

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People are not going to like this.

Idk what combination of internet desensitization to violence, post 9/11 detachment, and outright antisemitism leads people to act and think like this, but uh. Abuse and murder of civilians is bad, actually. Regardless of who. You can (and should) oppose the mass murders that the Israeli government is regularly perpetrating while also thinking it’s bad to kill their civilians. “That didn’t happen, and if it did it’s not as bad as they say it is, and if it was then they deserved it” is exactly how people talk about the very Palestinians you claim to care about. So seeing that narrative progress regarding the rape and murder of Israeli civilians? Really makes ya think!

The Israeli government is an immoral institution that deserves consequences for its routine crimes against the Palestinian people. Their civilians do not deserve to pay that price.

Hamas is an extremist group that has proven repeatedly that, when given the chance, they will enact horrific violence on their enemies but also their own people. Civilians who fear them, as well as those who see them as the only path toward Palestinian self-determination, do not deserve to be bombed and shot and starved to death.

The United States government is likewise an immoral and illegitimate institution that deserves consequences for, *gestures at our entire history.* The people killed on 9/11 didn’t deserve to die for those crimes.

See where I’m going with this? If the killing of Israeli civilians is justified because of the actions of the government, then what does that say about the Israeli response to those killings? Which civilians is it okay to kill? Who gets to be innocent? Who gets to be human? Much of the world has ignored Israel’s crimes up to this point because the people suffering are largely Arab Muslims, a demographic that that has been demonized and dehumanized for generations. Can you think of any other groups that have been historically dehumanized? Who have had the violence against them erased? Ignored? Denied?

A major tagline the last few months has been “antizionism is not antisemitism.” I agree with that, but some of you do a piss poor job of showing it.

Oh and one more thing. People are being killed every day in Gaza. This is an ongoing issue. There are no days off. They are not “using the Oscars to distract us,” and please think long and hard about what you believe if “a shady Zionist cabal has outsize influence over Hollywood and mainstream entertainment, and they are using this to distract you from what they’re really doing” doesn’t immediately set off ten thousand alarms.