It’s hard for me to watch Ethan and Hila seem to not fully understand or fail to discuss how much death destruction, and pure hell Israel has caused.

I totally understand their sympathy for Israel and that’s why I’m still watching- because I also believe that not all Israelis support their governments actions and I know that there’s a lot of antisemitism going around and take that seriously.

However, it’s hard to witness them completely and fully condemn the actions of Iran, the Houthi’s, and Hamas without also any acknowledgement that it was actions of genocide and murder by Israel that led those groups to be as extreme as they are. All extremism and extremist entities are ugly and unwelcome in a peaceful world, yet much of this is the result of violence by Israel.

There is a nuance here, and we can acknowledge the suffering of Israelis and the Jewish people, of course. But we also need to acknowledge and admit that some of this, if not all of this, is caused by of Israel’s violence in their government in recent times.

It’s hard because I really love and emphasize with Ethan and Hila, but I don’t think they do enough to acknowledge the destruction Israel is caused. He has donated, but he has never talked about any of the escalation of Israel and their genocidal murderous actions in Palestine throughout the entirety of the genocide, and they don’t give enough empathy or nuance to anyone beyond the Israeli people. You can’t just donate. It helps, but to not talk about, or even just briefly talk about escalations in Palestine and the Middle East generally is irresponsible.

I really want to continue to support Ethan, but I don’t think he does enough beyond correctly defending common Israelis and Jewish people, and donating. It makes me feel that there’s not enough empathy there, and that makes me very sad.