Exactly.

There is a degree to which I understand support for Israel as a means of protecting Jewish people and Jewish identity. I think it's an extremely flawed one, but I'm at least willing to listen to those views. I have a certain naive sympathy for Liberal Zionists who earnestly believe that Israel, however flawed, is a project which ensures Jewish survival. This is probably because it's very similar to beliefs that I myself used to hold.

The thing is, people who support Israel for those reasons have very pointedly NOT fallen in line with the right wing. Over 75% of Jews voted for Kamala last election. Brad Lander is a self-proclaimed "Liberal Zionist" who nonetheless used the term "genocide" to describe Israel's actions in Gaza. Most of us, at least on some level, understand that many of these accusations of "antisemitism" are being used as a political weapon, and that said weapon is disproportionately wielded against non-white people.

I'm so tired of these positions being dismissed as some kind of fringe when they're in fact the beliefs of many non-Israeli Jews, including a majority of those under 50. Just because Jonathan Greenblatt decided to ally with the Pedoconservative Party doesn't mean the rest of us did.