If you support the Palestinians but hate Hamas (not you, but you know) then sometimes you actually express that objection to Hamas. You don't concentrate on the bad things the IDF does. If Hamas fires rockets from a refugee camp and the IDF strikes back you mention that it is wrong to fire rockets from refugee camps.
Right now I'm involved in several discussions of this form. A Jewish person says something, maybe to do with being Jewish. Like a video on an Ethiopian form of challah. The thread is then full of people attacking Israel. Then when challenged they say they object to Zionists, not Jews. But the thread is about Jews, not Zionists. I ask about their views of genocide in Sudan or the Horn of Africa and they say I'm deflecting. But, again, the thread about about making a Jewish bread, a bread made in the Horn of Africa.
Btw, one of the underappreciated and banal aspects of the Israeli government's settlement policy is its relationship to the housing policy. An Israeli friend tells me that a fair number of settlers are not necessarily supportive of settlements but simply can't afford to live anywhere else.
If you support the Palestinians but hate Hamas (not you, but you know) then sometimes you actually express that objection to Hamas. You don't concentrate on the bad things the IDF does. If Hamas fires rockets from a refugee camp and the IDF strikes back you mention that it is wrong to fire rockets from refugee camps.
Right now I'm involved in several discussions of this form. A Jewish person says something, maybe to do with being Jewish. Like a video on an Ethiopian form of challah. The thread is then full of people attacking Israel. Then when challenged they say they object to Zionists, not Jews. But the thread is about Jews, not Zionists. I ask about their views of genocide in Sudan or the Horn of Africa and they say I'm deflecting. But, again, the thread about about making a Jewish bread, a bread made in the Horn of Africa.
Btw, one of the underappreciated and banal aspects of the Israeli government's settlement policy is its relationship to the housing policy. An Israeli friend tells me that a fair number of settlers are not necessarily supportive of settlements but simply can't afford to live anywhere else.
That tracks. It also reinforces my claim of the difference between peoples and their power institutions. Thanks