DarthJon

1. Israel is not committing genocide. Calling it a genocide is extremely disrespectful to people who have, you know, actually suffered genocides.

2. I haven't met a single Jew ever in my life that thinks, "Israel is perfect and everything they do is right and every single government policy is right." Perhaps you remember the large protests that were taking place before Oct 7 regarding judicial reform. "Standing with Israel" simply means "supporting Israel's right to defend itself against genocidal enemies," or perhaps more simply, "supporting Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state." It means in a war between a liberal democratic country (however imperfect) and genocidal Jew-hating terrorists, taking the side of the former rather than the latter.

The reason why anti-Zionist Jews exist now is the same reason they existed before Israel was created. Because they live in privilege and safety, assimilated into left-wing circles, and they don't want to risk losing that. Anybody who proposes a single secular state is either naive, completely ignorant of history and the broader geopolitical context of the conflict, or just doesn't give a crap about Jewish well-being. Because Israel's enemies have made it very, very clear that they aren't interested in peaceful coexistence with Jews. Their objective is to destroy Israel, along with as many Jewish lives as possible, and return the land to its rightful place in the Muslim empire.

I would bet lots of money her posts didn't simply "criticize Israel"

I don't disagree it's a waste of police resources. But that's not the point. The point is the misleading propaganda that creates the false impression that the government is monitoring your social media posts and showing up at your house because you post something negative about Israel.

It's pretty clear from what they're saying that it was her comments targeting people that were the problem, not posts about Israel. She doesn't even deny it, she's just pissed off they complained to the police that she was harassing them.

They didn't warn her over her social media posts on Israel. They warned her over her messages targeting specific people, who complained to the police about harassment. Important difference.

Anti-Zionist Jews are a very, very small minority. They're fringe. The fact of the matter is that Israel is closely associated with Jews because it is the Jewish homeland. That's why antisemitism spikes around the world when violence flares up in Israel - because people hold all Jews responsible for what happens there.

While someone can logically be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic, we're not dealing with logical arguments. This isn't a philosophy class. This is the real world. And the inconvenient truth for many on the left is that there is a significant overlap between the anti-Zionist and antisemite circles on the Venn diagram. Most people just don't want to confront their unconscious biases about Jewish people.

"I visited Israel, talked to a few people, so now I'm an expert on the longstanding and complex conflict so I'm going to write a completely one-sided diatribe against Israel."

Did I capture it?

I don't suppose you've thought about the possibility that the people he's "interviewing" are saying exactly what they know will generate a response because it's obvious he's not an actual journalist and is just looking for gotcha moments for his social media feeds.

Then of course there's the fact that he could easily have talked to hundreds of soldiers who didn't say what he wanted, and he's just cherry-picked the small number of soldiers that give him what he wants for his social media feeds.

But that would require people to think critically. Or at least just think.