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It's definitely anti-Semitic! He's acting like _all_ Jews are pro-Israel and therefore pro-slaughtering. That kind of stereotyping is bad.

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ok, so s/Jew/Zionist in the post and it's all ok? The thrust of the essay seems to be condemning violence in the name of an identity, whether that's a religious, racial or national identity, and it seems to me Zionists don't make a distinction between Jew and Israeli.

Uh, yeah. That's the point. That to be Jewish, to be Israeli, and to be in support of the Israeli government in power are three very distinct things.

Next up, let's write an article critical of Hamas and start with "If I were a Muslim, I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing".

> it seems to me Zionists don't make a distinction between Jew and Israeli

This serves their interests, but the framing shouldn't be accepted. There are plenty of non-Zionist or anti-Zionist Jews, or even Zionist Jews who have specific concerns about the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere; it's a little funny seeing people like Bernie Sanders being deemed antisemitic, for example.

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