They aren't just fringe crazies but are or have recently been part of the government.
Not relevant, our government also have fringe crazies. Government policy almost always doesn't reflect these gotcha quotes.
Most countries have dodgy politicians, but not all of them use state power to occupy, bomb, or control another population for decades.
I dispute the premise. The "other population" has been bombing Israel for decades whilst openly engaged in an outward policy of complete annihilation. Most countries would have fought a war to end it years ago, as Europe did in WWII.
And no, the left doesn’t “side with Hamas” most people I know are supporting Palestinians, not terrorists.
I have seen almost nobody from the left calling for the hostages to be returned, calling for Hamas to be destroyed or doing much other than "criticising Israel" or calling for it's dismantlement. In fact, hostage posters and ribbons are ripped off, and at the weekly protests, those holding signs calling Hamas to be removed are often arrested.
You can oppose Hamas and think bombing civilians is wrong.
Civilians are not being targeted. Civilians should have been evacuated.
Also, the Israelis who criticise their own gov aren’t being erased they’re often the ones being shared because they prove criticising Israel isn’t antisemitic.
No they are not. the ones being shared are the fringe ones who run cover for antisemites, the ones who want to "end zionism" (what even is that???). The regular, normal ones who think their country should exist and understand Hamas must be stopped but who are also advocates for peace and kindness are completely muted.
But inside Israel, they're the ones being silenced.
No, Jews in Israel who protest the government are not silenced. In fact, Israel has one of the most vibrant and active protest cultures in the world.
Hamas is vile, but they didn’t appear out of nowhere. Israel’s policies helped destroy moderates and create the conditions for Hamas to thrive.
Nonsense. Hamas evolved from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, Its 1988 charter declared its aim to destroy Israel and establish an Islamic state in historic Palestine. It rejected peaceful solutions and was openly antisemitic, quoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and calling for jihad. Israel had provided far better conditions in Gaza than Egypt did, hugely and measurably. Hamas didn't care what Israel's policies were - they wanted Israel and Jews to be dead.
If you only ever talk about Hamas and never mention what Palestinians live through daily no state, no rights, constant surveillance and bombing – then you're only telling half the story.
I have mentioned those things 500 times.
This isn’t about picking sides. It’s about caring that innocent people – Israeli and Palestinian – are being killed in a cycle that won’t end just because one side has better PR.
I do care, hence I want Hamas gone and for people to stop encouraging them subtly or less subtly.
Here’s my hero, Gideon Levy, facing the righteous wrath of bystanders simply for trying to educate Israelis and the world about a deeper, often uncomfortable truth.
That explains a lot. Gideon Levy portrays nearly everything Israel does through the lens of occupation and oppression, often ignoring or downplaying terrorism, security threats, or the broader context. He routinely excuses and sanitises Hamas and other violent actors.
He regularly mocks Israeli fears of terrorism or missile attacks, treating them as paranoia rather than legitimate threats. He has called IDF soldiers "war criminals" as a blanket label, which is quite a statement given who they are fighting.
Levy rarely, if ever, seriously critiques Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, or the broader culture of antisemitism and martyrdom glorification within Palestinian society. He gives Palestinian actors a moral free pass while scrutinising only one side.
As I understand it, even many on the Israeli left see Levy as unhelpful to the cause of peace and his work is regularly quoted and promoted by far-left and antisemitic circles globally who weaponise his Israeli identity to justify their hostility to the Jewish state.
I recently watched him on a debate about whether anti zionism was antisemitism and he sat on the side with Medhi Hassan, a notorious antisemite in my opinion and his justifications were absolutely pathetic.
I have thought a great deal over the last couple of years on this particular quandary, why there are some seemingly educated people - even israelis - who seem to make arguments against Israel's right to exist and I find it quite fascinating.
What I have come to is that there is a blind spot in the morality of the world when it comes to Jews. There always has been, but after WWII it became less socially acceptable to outwardly root for the annihilation of Jewish people, so now it's been re-worked as a social justice movement that simply calls for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
The weaponry used against the Jews now is ironically, the very same protections that were created as a result of the enormous shame the world felt after allowing (and in many cases actively participating) in the murder of 6 million of them. Language used to describe that murder is transferred to them when they act to defend themselves against a group openly trying to do it again.
Getting back your hostages and stopping a terror organisation who are openly trying to kill you and purposefully put as many of their own people in harms way whilst you becomes genocide.
Moving people out of harms way becomes ethnic cleansing.
A thriving city with malls, coffee shops, luxury villas, universities and 4 star hotels becomes a concentration camp.
Living with 2 million Muslims with completely equal rights becomes apartheid.
People suddenly start pretending importing weapons is a "human right".
Basically the ensure thing is designed to delegitimise Israel and therefore sanitise the murder of Jews and the stripping them of their rights. Maybe there are no Nuremberg Laws, but we will ban them from singing contests, or kick them out of parties or social groups.
What is required of them is simple: to renounce for themselves and only for themselves, the right of self determination, to peace and to security - whilst simultaneously being willing to condemn their people and possibly family and friends to death in order to provide those rights for another group that is trying to kill them.
It will be studied in universities one day, for sure!
But Gideon Levy, and the likes of him, have I think made a nice career and social standing for themselves by applying standards or rights to their own people that they wouldn't dream of applying to anyone else.
Life has it's cowards.