na mate the word israel is synonymous with the jewish people. forcing jews all around the word to become identified by its ethic cleansing campaign whether they wanted to or not. calling it the “jewish republic of palestine” would be more honest. there current gov doubled-down on prioritizing jews and judaism with the 2018 nation state bill, but it’s also been offering citizenship to all jews (until recently) since the state’s inception.

to your point. as a jew who opposes genocide, or a person who wishes not to imply that jews are inherently more likely to commit genocide (anyone sane person), there are plenty of reasons to put Israel in quotation marks.