EVERY WORD HERE FROM RABBI DAVID INGBER:
“Many of us believed the liberal world understood the difference between condemning an Israeli government and condemning Israel; between opposing occupation and opposing Jewish sovereignty; between demanding Palestinian dignity and treating Jewish self-determination as a crime. But the creep was unstoppable: Criticism of what Israel does moved to condemnation of what Israel is, until Israel itself became the crime, Zionism its name. The disparagement moved: from Israel to Zionism, from Zionism to Zionists, from Zionists to institutions, from institutions to people. Israeli. Zionist. Hillel. Synagogue. Rabbi. Student. Jew."
Highly recommend watching the entirety of the Rosh Hashana sermon by Rabbi David Ingber:
“Antisemitism will not honor our internal Jewish arguments. Hatred will not stop at the door and ask which Jew signed which petition, who marched at which demonstration, who calls themselves Zionist and who does not. The Jew who believes they have escaped the indictment by renouncing Zionism may discover that those doing the indicting are no longer interested in the distinction.”
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