That’s a very understandable thought for many really awful reasons. For what it’s worth though, there are some folks who judge based on actions - not ethnicity or where a person was born/resides. I have a lot of admiration for Jews who are willing to speak up in support of human rights and ethical treatment. Especially since I have a Jewish friend who was shunned by their family in a cruel way for daring to speak and act with their conscience instead of according to pressure.
I like to think that the people who are Humanists and thus are the most intenselly against the way Israel is acting because of how much it goes against their Humanist Principles (you know, “though shall not mass murder people because of their etnicity”), are also the most likelly to not judge people badly just because of their religion, including in this situation people who are Jews and who given their own Principles are against the actions of Israel.
The problem as usual are the racists, the entire range of them, including those who are Jews, those who are anti-semite and those who whilst being non-Jews support Zionist supremacism or are simply Islamophobic.
For me the single most shocking thing in all this is how all the closet racists came out and we’re seing things like Germany rabbidly defending Genocide with no other argument than the race of the aggressors, the very way of thinking as the supposedly “never again” old days.
That said, as others pointed out, the pain of Humanist Jews is nothing compared to what Palestinians are suffering at the hands of ultra-racist Jews and the racists supporting them in the West, so the Humanist Principle of “Minimizing Pain” would dictate that the pain of such Jews is far far behind in the order of priority of things to address than stopping the continued massacre of Palestinians.
This is a really shitty time to be Jewish.
It’s a worse time being a Palestinian, but of course most people can’t overcome their internal racism to recognize or articulate it.
One bad thing does not negate another bad thing just because it’s worse.
That’s a very understandable thought for many really awful reasons. For what it’s worth though, there are some folks who judge based on actions - not ethnicity or where a person was born/resides. I have a lot of admiration for Jews who are willing to speak up in support of human rights and ethical treatment. Especially since I have a Jewish friend who was shunned by their family in a cruel way for daring to speak and act with their conscience instead of according to pressure.
I like to think that the people who are Humanists and thus are the most intenselly against the way Israel is acting because of how much it goes against their Humanist Principles (you know, “though shall not mass murder people because of their etnicity”), are also the most likelly to not judge people badly just because of their religion, including in this situation people who are Jews and who given their own Principles are against the actions of Israel.
The problem as usual are the racists, the entire range of them, including those who are Jews, those who are anti-semite and those who whilst being non-Jews support Zionist supremacism or are simply Islamophobic.
For me the single most shocking thing in all this is how all the closet racists came out and we’re seing things like Germany rabbidly defending Genocide with no other argument than the race of the aggressors, the very way of thinking as the supposedly “never again” old days.
That said, as others pointed out, the pain of Humanist Jews is nothing compared to what Palestinians are suffering at the hands of ultra-racist Jews and the racists supporting them in the West, so the Humanist Principle of “Minimizing Pain” would dictate that the pain of such Jews is far far behind in the order of priority of things to address than stopping the continued massacre of Palestinians.
By definition, there are no humanist jews