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I know your average zionist doesn't speak for the religion but it feels like they've been working overtime to equate their political ideology and national project to their religion. It's a mental mindfuck that makes me question myself if I'M the one being an antisemite when I call out the IDF for butchering children or settlers for running pogroms on Palestinians. Fucking pissrael and it's hasbara propaganda has now moved public opinion so much that taking a stance against bombing hospitals is akin to being a bigot.
FUCK 
It's so weird how we got to this moment. AIPAC and Gaza being an open air prison have both been a thing more in the background of the American zeitgeist but it's somehow become the fulcrum that every issue is balanced on. As leftists, we all know how all things are connected and politics are everywhere, but that's not how normies view the world.
Now everyone is a Monday morning quarterback about all things Israel and Gaza. But they aren't well informed. The nauseating heel turn that mainstream Dems are doing with "we have always been against the genocide" is especially hard for me to deal with. Just six months ago they were calling me an antisemite because I didn't want innocent people slaughtered, especially with my own tax dollars. I don't get a say in it, and they take a third of my income to go kill people around the world with it. Obviously not my main issue with it...