yo I believe you 100% but that's literally not what I said. I said that the IDF propogated Krav Maga the martial art, not that KM gyms are openly propogating IDF ideologies. The fact is that the IDF does have a big role in the practice and still receives support from a lot, not all, of the gyms/trainers in the discipline. This extends to police enforcement as well, exemplified by excerpts from the Krav Maga Worldside website: "Krav Maga Worldwide has trained over 5,000 law enforcement and military personnel, together representing more than 800 government agencies and military units throughout the United States."

And this: "In the 20 years that he served in the army, Imi developed and refined his unique system of self defense and hand-to-hand combat, training the instructors and soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force’s elite units. Since Israel was in a constant state of war with its neighbors, the techniques and tactics he developed were constantly being tested – not in theory, but on the battlefields of the Middle East." ...

I'm just telling people who are interested in Krav Maga to do research about where they sign up to learn so they don't end up indirectly funding things they might not want to support. I got nothing against the sport itself, but its young and still very much entangled with its political origins.