This one idiot =/= all Israeli people and Israeli people =/= all Jewish people. Please don’t generalize…
Opinion polls throughout the current genocide have seen Israeli public opinion around 80% in support of the campaign. I think it’s obvious that not all Israelis and certainly not all Jewish people support genocide, the views expressed in the video are not uncommon and carry no negative social connotations in Israel though. That is the environment required for genocide.
Israel certainly does not represent Judaism. It is probably the greatest proponent of antisemitism today, in fact.
But Israelis are actually this racist and genocidal, overall. They want even more blood. When they bimb more places approval ratings go up. The protests in the streets are about their loss of status, not ending the genocide. Their media is openly racist against Palestinians. Most Israelis believe media showing Palestinians in a sympathetic light should be censorship. They approve of the settlements and occupation. They approve of the genocide.
This is because they are a settler colonial apaetheid nation. Their entire project is premised on the dusplacement and oppression of indigenous people. It is like South Africa. It is like the US. The settlers must feel entitled to their position and stolen land in order for that project to survive as designed, and as its economic position dictates, and so the society is taught to be racist by those larger forces. Taught to dehumanize. Taught to hate those they must later oppeess.
“We deserve it.”
I’m reading a book on early christianity and it covered judaism at the time. A lot of stuff about how god promised them land was emphasized in the scholarly work from the 80s. It really hit me a different way thinking about how they’re acting in Gaza. It makes a lot of sense. Their silly religious beliefs center largely on how they lost their land and got it back around sixth or seventh century BCE, so of course they think they have every right to do whatever they want to the people they displaced.
End religion. The world would be a much better place.
While Zionism claims to base itself in Judaism it is really more about European antisemitism. Its history begins in the 1800s or so, not over a thousand years ago, among European Jews responding to antisemitism across Europe. Pogroms, apartheid, all kinds of violence. It is more about ethnicity and colonialism than religion.
Prominent christian zionism predates jewish zionism.
