I’m not going for you, but “you”. That’s the thing about communitarianism, you’re part of makeup of the actual material conditions, you don’t get a individualistic pass of non complicity. The burden is on the shoulders of all people, it’s the lifelong brain washing propaganda of self-made men that makes you think otherwise. Socialists in North America shouldn’t see themselves as saviors, but penitents instead.

Also there’s definitely a decent amount of jewish anti-zionist orgs in the US. Jewish Voice for Peace (you might’ve seen their “Not In Our Name” slogan) alone is gigantic and probably the largest or most recognizable pro-Palestine protest group in the country. The name sounds lib, but they’re very clear that they’re firmly anti-zionist, pro-BDS, and have been calling Israel a settler-colonial, genocidal apartheid state for years. Liberal and conservative zionists alike claim they’re infiltrated by Hezbollah

Salience bias. Like half of ethnic Jews in the US are secular; either non-religious or vaguely spiritual but never actually attending synagogues. Zionist Jews tend to be the most religious, loud/ outspoken about their Jewishness, and conflate their ethnicity with their core identity as a person; and thus are way more likely to be involved in synagogues or Jewish orgs. (Also, I’d bet the average Evangelical Christian is even more likely zionist than the average religious Jew.) Meanwhile antizionist Jews tend to blend in with non-Jewish people/ groups and generally don’t feel the need to congregate into Jewish identity groups

I have a Jewish friend at my uni who’s been fervently pro-Palestine for years. If you saw him at a protest, you’d probably assume he’s mediterranean or middle eastern. And he obviously doesn’t go around telling people he’s an anti-zionist Jew, nor should he have any special obligations that differ from non-Jewish antizionists on the basis that he was born with similar phenotypes to the people committing horrific atrocities

Ethnicity, like race, is a social construct lumping people into blurry categories from a spectrum of superficial appearances. Fun fact: despite diversity in appearance and culture, humans are by far among the least genetically diverse mammals to exist, with phenotypes for appearance making up <0.1% of our actual genes. The vast majority of genetic variation in humans is found within all groups, rather than between groups. Meaning there’s a high chance you have more genetic similarities with a stranger of a completely different ethnicity/race from you than a stranger of your own ethnicity/race. Which makes it all the more stupid to consider any group of humans as innately more prone to certain mentalities or behaviors

potential blowback in the form of genocide against jews.

that’s not what blowback means. it would be blowback if genderisopsec were describing a fear of Palestinians or another general Levantine group committing some form of state-sanctioned massacre of the descendants of eurojewish settlers in the aftermath of some future total diminution of the zionist ethnostate.

what genderisopsec described on the other hand is a hypothetical situation in which jews living in the u.s. become the target of state-backed violence as a scapegoat for u.s. leadership and participation in the Nakba so that amerikkkan christozionists don’t suffer as much backlash for the genocide powered by their doomsday cult. which is ultimately pretty similar to why tsarist pogroms were originally organized during the late russian empire. this is not blowback because it would be carried about by u.s. settlers and the u.s. state and not people that were actually harmed by the zionist genocides.

bringing up blowback on a comment under an article about zionists at a hotel is not centering them, the topic was already not Palestinians. and maybe zionist jews would be less genocidal if they were worrying about neonazi blowback? israel knows the blowback is coming and they want it to come so that non-zionist jews will be pushed into their arms and go help do more genocide and occupation.

I don’t know how you’d even make this non-story incident focus on the victims of genocide. we don’t write fluff pieces every time someone puts up a sticker, but we do get news stories when some zionist can’t handle seeing it because they make a big stink and the media goes along with it.

death to zionists, death to israel

I have friends that are staunchly anti-zionist jews and I care about them so actually fuck this take. People I care about are gonna catch shit for this. What is wrong with you? This is not a zero sum game. Also Israel is not killing just non-Jews, they are also killing Jewish Palestinians. Nobody is “centering Jewish safety” and it is perfectly reasonable to talk about all the knock on effects of the actions of Israel.

Maybe every TV in the hotel had the same message and they’re doing the typical Israeli thing of playing the victim?

Yes that makes sense. The TV is sending special messages just for them, to mock their humiliated status and further persecute them, at the behest of an unknown but powerful extrinsic force.

Sure does merit police time and media coverage.