In an op-ed for France’s Le Monde, Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius expresses fear over the dramatic change in the way the world perceives Jewish people, as if being Jewish had become something really murky, vaguely suspect, possibly detestable.’
I have nothing angaint anyone, or any group, just because of their religion, ancestry, government, etc.
However, when things like this pop up, it becomes increasing difficult to separate what the gov does and the citizens that support it. Especially with numbers like these:
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-813084
The point this guy is trying to make is that people are conflating Israel, Judaism, and Zionism in ways that don’t always make sense
Like, the polls you’re quoting are sentiments of Israelis, so this guy (and the vast majority of Jewish people in the world) are not included in those polls.
Even within Israel, that’s, what, 3-4 million people that disagree with that sentiment? And Israelis are only ~73% Jewish anyway?
On top of that, tons of zionists arent even Jewish, they are even likely to be antisemitic tbh.
So… what you said sounds a lot like “I don’t have anything against one particular group, but the sentiment of the citizens of this one country makes me second guess the perspective of a person in a totally different country just because they share one dimension of identity”… In essence, it sounds a lot like prejudice
(free palestine, in case that isn’t obvious)
I mentioned specifically citizens of Israel.
I specifically stated it becomes hard to separate the citizens that support it.
I did not say I have any opinion on the people. (Same way I do not hate Russian people.)
But, let’s say I was a Jew in Germany in 1944… Would I be prejudice for believing the Nazis and millions of citizens wanted me dead?
It’s not prejudice, it’s reality, within the state.
But, yes, free Palestine. Free Ukraine. Free Tibet, Taiwan. Free Myanmar. Free etc.
You posted the numbers. It’s not 1% or something small that people might argue is trivial. One trap of political reporting is that people conflate a country name with it’s military or its current leadership or its people. That inevitably leads to extrapolation and unwarranted conclusions.
Of course this is not unique to Israel. It happens all the time. And it’s not OK, but many people are lazy and others are manipulative, so the best we can do is be aware of the tendency to equivocate.