We must condemn the fascist, Nazi-like exterminationism of the Israelis. But at the same time is incumbent upon us to equally condemn the verifiably Nazi and vastly worse (by an order of magnitude) exterminationist antisemitism of the Jew-haters.
You either oppose Nazi-like and genocidal thought and behavior or you don't. You don't get to condemn it in real Nazis and then support to the hilt in the Israelis.
Neither do you get to support the real deal genocidal Nazism with the bodies stacked up like cordwood and then condemn the much milder Nazi-like behavior of the Israelis.
Same with genocide. It's either right or wrong, and if it's wrong, it's always wrong. There are no good genocides and bad genocides. It doesn't work that way. All genocides are bad.
Exterminationism, genocide, and Nazi-like behavior are not cases where you split the loaf in half and call it a deal. These are not things you go contingent or "Well, sometimes" about.
With these things, you either back them, in which cas…
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