The fact that there is extremely legitimate basis for very valid and trenchant criticism of the policies of the state of Israel and its institutions, does not in any way make the dubious framing of violence against Jewish people in the diaspora as understandably (!) reactive to those policies any less morally bankrupt.
Hell it doesn’t make the popular bigotry against actual Israelis any less morally bankrupt.
Leftists who have made anti-Zionism a moral crusade that legitimates violence (against people living thousands of kilometers from Palestine!) are not working to liberate Palestinians from occupation, they are blindly miming the behaviors of the fascists they claim to be fighting and recreating their own versions of the very same political structures they are supposedly resisting.
Palestinian liberation WILL come inshallah beezrath hashem (speedily in our days!) but it will NOT come from the bloodthirsty and bigoted fascists in denial who are so verbose in their condemnation of “Israel.”
It will come from the Israeli and Palestinian civil rights activists working together to change our country for the better and build a shared society of true equals.
Anyone who doesn’t support all of us, really supports none of us.
And anyone who actually believes that supporting Israelis or Palestinians entails legitimating violence against Jewish people or Muslims, here or anywhere in the world, has lost their moral compass.
[My thoughts in light of the Haviv Rettig Gur / Molly Crabapple “debate”… and the seemingly endless sea of both antisemitism and anti-Israel hate that I’m confronted with daily.]