The State of Israel is not the Jewish people or religion. It is a country that has perpetrated collective punishment upon an innocent population, which is a war crime and we should not condone nor support it. To say so is not antisemitic, it is criticizing a foreign country’s illegal and immoral actions and our government for supporting it.
When 9/11 happened this country lost its mind. Yes, it was bad, no, it wasn’t another Pearl Harbor (the correct analogy would have been the Barbary Pirates – look it up). However, it was the excuse to go to war with Iraq – remember "Saddam has WMD’s and Saddam was involved in 9/11? None of that was true. The Bush Administration lied to us and to the world and the rest, as it is sad to say, is history.
I was in Missoula, MT, heard the news on the radio and we turned on the tv. It was surreal to watch. I was getting an accounting degree at UM at the time and going to class later there was some guy in a jacked up pickup flying a huge American flag racing around town, and I thought at the time, that this is going to very, very bad for the country.
Mississippi is incredibly corrupt, institutionally corrupt, and racist as the day is long. The water crisis in Montgomery, has the same cause as the water crisis in Flint; institutional racism.
The State of Israel is not the Jewish people or religion. It is a country that has perpetrated collective punishment upon an innocent population, which is a war crime and we should not condone nor support it. To say so is not antisemitic, it is criticizing a foreign country’s illegal and immoral actions and our government for supporting it.