The problem is, even when you try to separate the two, there is still some initial connection there.
If I meet a Jewish person I’ve never met before, I’m not going to just immediately assume they are a horrible fascist who supports killing children. However, one of the first questions that will enter my head is: “Is this person pro-Israel?” and unfortunately, I can’t just assume the answer is no. It’s also a question I need an answer to before I’m comfortable interacting with said person.
It’s a similar feeling to meeting someone from Russia, or hell, meeting someone from the US. The first, immediate, question I need the answer to is “Does the person I’m talking to support the absolutely unforgivable shit their country is doing?” because if the answer is yes, I don’t want to interact with that person a second more than I have to. The only difference with Jewish people is that they don’t have to be from Israel for that question to come up.
The problem is, even when you try to separate the two, there is still some initial connection there.
If I meet a Jewish person I’ve never met before, I’m not going to just immediately assume they are a horrible fascist who supports killing children. However, one of the first questions that will enter my head is: “Is this person pro-Israel?” and unfortunately, I can’t just assume the answer is no. It’s also a question I need an answer to before I’m comfortable interacting with said person.
It’s a similar feeling to meeting someone from Russia, or hell, meeting someone from the US. The first, immediate, question I need the answer to is “Does the person I’m talking to support the absolutely unforgivable shit their country is doing?” because if the answer is yes, I don’t want to interact with that person a second more than I have to. The only difference with Jewish people is that they don’t have to be from Israel for that question to come up.
It’s only fair to extend that suspicion to meeting Christians as well, the vast majority of Zionists are Christian.
I think I’m more suspicious of Christians than Jews on that front (among many many others)
Right. Not every Jewish person is pro- Isreal, but the only pro Isreal person in my immediate circle is Jewish.