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Being critical of what Israel is doing right now is completely fine and I am certainly a supporter of the palestinian struggle, but platforming a preacher calling for a "dark day" for all jews is not something that should be supported either. It's a shame that so many people can't seem to differ between jewish people and israel, it just makes it so much easier for israel to hide behind the "antisemitism" argument whenever their actions are called into question. However, antisemitism is still a big issue in the pro-palestinian camp.
If most of the anti Israel really cared about the Palestinians, you’d get the same amount of people protesting wrongs in Saudi, Yemen, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, slave trade in Libya etc.
Instead you get 10-20x more interest because a lot of these protestors are actually antisemite using this as a platform to spew their hatred.
Are there decent people? Sure. However just by looking at the magnitude of difference between this conflict and any other conflict should tell you that something else is driving it
How much money and weaponry do Western governments give Somalian pirates and Libyan slavers versus how much to the Israeli government? People will be more angry when there's a level of complicity from the so-called "international community".
I know I certainly feel a different exasperation due to me being Jewish and the Israeli government using people like me as cover for their horrible actions by trying to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism while allying with genuine antisemites as long as they support Israel (or at least hate Palestinians more).