2026-03-24
1 小时 38 分钟The government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and its many organized cheerleaders here in the United States
have for some time now made the case that all criticism of their government is anti-Semitism.
And it is because their government somehow speaks for all Jews globally.
Every Jewish person is represented by the Netanyahu government.
Therefore, the actions of the Netanyahu government represent every Jew on this planet.
And any criticisms of that government are, by definition, an attack on every Jew.
They are anti-Semitism.
It 's a position that does n't make any sense,
but it 's kind of hardened into a consensus in the United States, at least for right now.
And if you think about it for a moment, it's not only incorrect, it's a kind of slander against Jews.
It is itself a kind of anti-Semitism, because no,
not all Jews are represented by Benjamin Netanyahu, and there are many who do n't want to be.
And that's true even within Israel.
Yes, polling consistently shows that most Israelis were in favor of the war.
But in Israel, as in all countries, most people don't really know the details of what is happening or why.
And that's by design.
Israel is a particularly censored place.
It's also a particularly small place, fewer than 10 million people.
And so its citizens.
By and large, live the same way we do, in an information vacuum,