I know your average zionist doesn’t speak for the religion but it feels like they’ve been working overtime to equate their political ideology and national project to their religion. It’s a mental mindfuck that makes me question myself if I’M the one being an antisemite when I call out the IDF for butchering children or settlers for running pogroms on Palestinians. Fucking pissrael and it’s hasbara propaganda has now moved public opinion so much that taking a stance against bombing hospitals is akin to being a bigot.
FUCK
I wish there were more anti-zionist Jewish communities. There used to be a ton, Jewish bunds in eastern Europe were anti Zionist and the vast majority. There were also a lot of Bolshevik Party Jews (which the Nazis used to smear the soviet’s but I take as a point of pride that there were some cool ass Jews). Even in the US, most Jews were anti-zionist. But for the past 80 or so years, zionists with the empires backing have been able to take over most major jewish communities, synagogues etc. Since then growing up in the US as a Jew meant that doing anything with your religious/ethnic community meant Israel was going to be involved in some way.