Or at least from its founder and President Jeremy Ben-Ami.
He is writing about Gaza, and his thoughts strongly echo mine.
As a Jew and a life long Zionist and a supporter of the 2-State solution, I have not been a support of Benjamin Netanyahu (×™ִמַּ×— שְׁמו) or his policies.
At the same time, I find the language and terminology used by some people in good faith has made me profoundly uncomfortable.
What Ben-Ami says, and I agree with boils down to this:
The personal pain of my own family from a crime that I believe has no parallel – and my association of the word genocide exclusively with that event - means I am unlikely to use the term myself.
But I cannot and will not argue any more against those using the term. I simply won’t defend the indefensible."
None of this in any way justifies the actions of Hamas, either on October 7 or since, but the actions of Netanyahu, his government, and members of the state military and intelligence apparatus are not justified by the actions of Hamas.
This is even more incoherent than my normal hog-swallop on this blog.
My apologies to my reader(s).
1 comments :
It's a delicate subject, but I believe that you and I are both descendants of genocide survivors. That's why seeing what's been going on in Gaza and the West Bank has been unbearable to me. It's personal. And it fills me with rage.
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