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…"
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.