Well sounds like the Democratic leadership to aggressively court disgruntled voters and listening and addressing their concerns is off to a great start with this.

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    Israel is explicitly a Jewish ethnostste and claims to be the homeland of all Jews

    25% of Israel is not Jewish. The land is also sacred to other faiths.

    You might as well complain about linking the Vatican to Catholicism.

    If the Pope started killing residents of Rome and expanding the Vatican into Borgo then I would blame the Pope, not Catholics in general.

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      25% of Israel is not Jewish. The land is also sacred to other faiths.

      The Knesset is majority Jewish, the cabinets are almost exclusively Jewish ministers, and of course there is PM Netanyahu. He rew is the country’s official language and almost 80% of Israeli Jews think Jewish citizens deserve preferential treatment over citizens of other religions.

      https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-israels-jewishness-is-overtaking-its-democracy/

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        Again you are being antisemitic by trying link Judaism to a genocidal regime. The people in power in Israel are not monsters because they are Jewish.

        Most Jews do not live in Israel and are not killing Palestinians.

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          Like it or not the regime claims to represent Judaism. I don’t blame non-Israeli Jews for what Israel does any more than I blame the average Palestinian for what Hamas did.

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            Like it or not the regime claims to represent Judaism.

            My beef is with you claiming that disliking aipac is blaming the Jews.

            Your stance seems to have softened so let’s leave it with you promising not to conflate State and religion/ethnicity in the future.

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              My beef is that saying that a Jewish group controls the government, even if you don’t realize it consciously, is repeating antisemitic claims that date back to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. That doesn’t mean you are antisemitic, but you should realize what you are saying.

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                No. You brought the antisemitic beef to the discussion.

                If you had said

                People love blaming the Jews Israels. The National Association of Realtors spent more than the AIPAC last cycle.

                Then we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

                Next time consider your choice of words.