I am asking this because I do not know. I am always told not every Jew is a Zionist, and recently I have seen a few young Jews in the U.S. protest against Zionism in Israel, but this genocide has been happening for a long time and I can never remember anyone in the U.S. standing up and saying to Israel Stop killing and using "Jewish" or Judaism as the reason it is okay.
I am asking this because I do not know. I am always told not every Jew is a Zionist, and recently I have seen a few young Jews in the U.S. protest against Zionism in Israel, but this genocide has been happening for a long time and I can never remember anyone in the U.S. standing up and saying to Israel Stop killing and using "Jewish" or Judaism as the reason it is okay.
Unfortunately, while all Jews are not Zionists, the reality is many Jews, perhaps most, certainly too many have funded, supported and promoted the horror that is Israel. I wrote a piece on this recently, The Crime of Ignorance.
Either those Jews knew the genocidal ethnic cleansing, rape, torture, murder, theft which founded Israel and which has continued ever since, and did not care, or they did not bother to find out exactly what they were supporting and promoting. I am not sure what is worse.
From before 1948, there have been people, including Jews, protesting the creation and the crimes of Israel. The Western media has suppressed or vilified them, mostly marginalized and ignored them, or reported their views except those regarding Palestine. Some of the most persistent and courageous and vocal have been Jewish, for decades: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Bernie Sanders, Alice Rothschild, Medea Benjamin, Philip Roth, and many others.
I am asking this because I do not know. I am always told not every Jew is a Zionist, and recently I have seen a few young Jews in the U.S. protest against Zionism in Israel, but this genocide has been happening for a long time and I can never remember anyone in the U.S. standing up and saying to Israel Stop killing and using "Jewish" or Judaism as the reason it is okay.
Unfortunately, while all Jews are not Zionists, the reality is many Jews, perhaps most, certainly too many have funded, supported and promoted the horror that is Israel. I wrote a piece on this recently, The Crime of Ignorance.
Either those Jews knew the genocidal ethnic cleansing, rape, torture, murder, theft which founded Israel and which has continued ever since, and did not care, or they did not bother to find out exactly what they were supporting and promoting. I am not sure what is worse.
I agree very much with your post.
From before 1948, there have been people, including Jews, protesting the creation and the crimes of Israel. The Western media has suppressed or vilified them, mostly marginalized and ignored them, or reported their views except those regarding Palestine. Some of the most persistent and courageous and vocal have been Jewish, for decades: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Bernie Sanders, Alice Rothschild, Medea Benjamin, Philip Roth, and many others.