A friend accused me of being Anti-Semitic for my condemnation of Netanyahu and the rightwing parties in Israel

[fujiyamasan]

58. I don't see anything you said as anti semitic

I don’t know if your friend is Jewish or not, but sometimes comparisons to the holocaust are problematic and perhaps unintentionally offensive. Perhaps he or she interpreted your comment about Jewish suffering in Poland during WWII as a comparison of October 7th to the Warsaw uprising (a terrible and ill fitting analogy).

The bigger problem I see is he or she is basically refusing to believe there is great suffering in Gaza, and that shows a warped reality. At what point can this endless death, destruction, and starvation finally be considered genocide? At the minimum aren’t calls for forced transfers considered ethnic cleansing?

I refused to admit for a long while that those were the proper terms to describe what is happening but it has been obvious that even with Hamas crippled, Israel doesn’t seem interested in deescalating this conflict. Instead the Israeli government’s plan seems to be to keep this going until either there is no one left in Gaza, or until it basically becomes uninhabitable.