- The term Israeli Jews is used by the Israeli government. Because there are more than 2 million “Israeli Arabs” who live as third class citizens. Though they prefer to identify as Palestinians, their legal status is distinct from other Palestinians who are stateless and live under a military occupation in the West Bank or under siege in the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli polls show the majority of Israeli Jews support the genocide. In the US I think the support was 60% for the genocide among US Jews. This doesn’t deny that we have Jewish allies but they are clearly less than half the global Jewish population.
- I agree we shouldn’t conflate any nation state with a religion. Zionism itself started among Christians who wanted to bring back Jesus. Zionism then evolved to become a way for Europe to get rid of its Jews and colonize the Middle East.