> can you really blame them? israel represents jews. we are jews. israels bloodthirst just exhausted people too much to allow for nuance. your whole "not like other jews" schtick may be genuine but it is always going to come off as self-preservation unless you actively criticise and disavow. i get that to some degree and it's unfortunate that israel is ironically enough probably one of the greatest contributors to antisemitism in the world but take japanese and german americans in wwii. sure plenty of ignorant people looked at them with suspicion, to the point that the government even interned all the japanese, but for a japanese or german born and raised in america i don't think someone should have had to shake them by the collar and demand they denounce a country they've never been to   or have you considered what you consider to be a real jew has been influenced by years of far-right propaganda about jews and their purported unrivaled ethnocentrism? certainly there are a lot of ethnocentric jews, including ones in america, but you've been misled about the frequency and intensity of it but, yeah, i certainly consider myself an american above all else, and i am also a liberal and generally dislike the notion of ethnocentrism or ethnonationalism. as a liberal i despise bigotry and ethnosupremacism of all kinds (and before you try to throw any gotchas, yes that includes bigotry towards white people), and despite the stereotype that liberal jews secretly are ethnosupremacists towards themselves while publicly condemning ethnosupremacism in europeans and advocating diversity among europeans, the vast majority of liberal jews in the us are genuine liberals. jewish intermarriage rates are rapidly rising, for example
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