Tying all voters of Jewish faith to the fight in Gaza

 




Last night I posted a comment on Slacktivist on Patheos, responding to someone to alleged not to understand Fred's linkage of modern American and Israeli human-rights failings with those of Jonathan Edwards and other slave-holding Colonial church figures.  I had written that "inequality and oppression from one set lead[s] to backlash from its opposite number."

He gifted me with this response:

👀👂👃: Jennifer, if you're correct that Fred is thinking in a binary way, that indeed is the problem I point out. Israel is a multi-party political system. Now, the American left proposes to achieve the same for the US in 2024. The actual specific leaders, parties, and policies should be discussed in detail, not macro...not some mythological binary "two sides." In the American context, now the problem will indeed be multi-partied. The more leftists beat on Israel, Jews, and Joe Biden...the more they cause defection from Biden and the Democratic Party (and increased self-defeating divisions within the party). So, go ahead. Engage in political discourse that throws political support to Jill Stein and Cornel West in an already razor's edge election...and just watch what happens. This ain't 2020 red/blue stuff anymore.

I detest this position of his.  Peter Beinart and the Israeli Jews on the 972 Website have been calling for justice for the Palestinians for years; not all Jews are alike on the matter of Israeli land policy or the sheer self-righteousness of Benjamin Netanyahu.  But I'm wondering how anyone on this blog would respond to our buddy's comment.  Any helpful ideas are welcome.

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