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from The Forward
[Jewish publication from USA]
Jay Michaelson
May 28, 2025

"The gulf between Israel’s government and the rest of the world — including its allies, the Trump administration, the Israeli public, and the American Jewish community — is widening into a chasm. And yet some in Jewish leadership are hiding their heads in the sand.

Critics of the Netanyahu-Smotrich regime are no longer just campus protesters, or hostile-to-Israel regimes, or antisemites like the murderer of two young Jews at an AJC event in Washington DC last week. They include former prime minister Ehud Olmert..."

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was about to say… wasn’t that always their plan…?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but he's angry that it's becoming too obvious.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

At what point will people realise this genocide is not a 'War' at all.

These murderers should be tried in the Hague.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The goal has been annihilation since well before 1948. It's so ridiculous that news media keeps pretending that October 7th kicked off a new conflict.

[–] corsicanguppy 4 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Bibi donating to Hamas got him his pretext.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Only facing reality now?

Better late than never I guess.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You needed to face that reality a long time ago. Instead you have been loudly supporting this genocide for over a year

You also need to face the reality that the problem is not just the "Netanyahu-Smotrich regime", and that opposition to Israel isn't antisemitism.

This article is pure, disingenuous face saving. Just trying to distance themself from the genocide now that they're supported it along to a point where they feel it can't be stopped. Read through it and they hit all the talking points; "Israel has a right to defend itself", "October 7th was an unspeakable crime", "Hamas is pure evil", "we need to save the hostages". They support every part of the current genocidal project except for the part where it looks bad for them and their veneer of liberal civility, so now they're trying to palm of all the guild to a few rogue politicians who totally don't represent Israel or Zionism in general.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

or antisemites like the murderer of two young Jews at an AJC event in Washington DC last week

lol sure

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"Now?"

"One day everyone will have been against this"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Israel lost forward.com ???

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Don't worry it's the Forward, there's 3 more articles coming about how the definition of genocide should exclude destruction in whole or in part of a group by a group that has "epigenetic trauma" from being victims of a genocide themselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm worried that India and Pakistan might get there first; and in an even more dramatic fashion.