Some of Israel’s staunch supporters are now using words such as ‘genocide’ to describe the war - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Some of Israel’s staunch supporters are now using words such as ‘genocide’ to describe the war

(JTA) — Elana Sztokman said there was no one event that led her to use the term “genocide” to describe Israel’s escalation of its war against Hamas in an essay she sent to her Substack subscribers.  An American-born writer living in Israel for the past 30 years, she recounted the daily toll of Israel’s campaign in Gaza and the images of skeletal Palestinian children that have emerged since Israel imposed a humanitarian aid blockade when it ended…

Some of Israel’s staunch supporters are now using words such as ‘genocide’ to describe the war - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Some Jews who have backed the war draw the line at a humanitarian aid blockade and threats to annex territory in Gaza.

‘Israel is the religion’: Zionism, genocide, and the generational divide in the Jewish world

Alice Rothchild’s path to becoming an anti-Zionist Jew took many years, many hard conversations, and required a lot of critical self-reflection. But she is part of a growing, powerful chorus of Jewish voices around the world speaking out against Israel’s Occupation of Palestine and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians—and she is urging others to join that chorus. “The time is long overdue for liberal Zionists to find the courage to take a long hard …

From the respect and admiration towards the Jewish people, I cannot agree with the massacre that the Netanyahu Government is perpetrating in Gaza. For humanitarian and proportionality reasons. I believe it is not a genocide, which implies the will to annihilate an entire people or an entire ethnic group. But it is a massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians with the consequent destruction of homes, public buildings and everything that was st…