The Star of David on Tanks Doesn’t Protect Jewish People
Antisemitism is on the rise in Europe and the U.S., and the usual explanations — online extremism, economic anxiety, political polarization — don’t quite do it justice (although they do explain a lot of what is happening). The real reason is nastier: whenever Israeli government says that it represents all Jews and then commits mass killings in Gaza, Jewish identity comes into the aftermath of its violence. That connection isn’t in there by default; it has been created by the state itself.
The Israeli government keeps saying it is ‘the nation-state of the Jewish people’ and not just its own…
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