This is a thread to try to convince mumsnetters that anti-genocide activists = Jew haters.
I will not conflate Jewish people with Israel and the illegal and barbaric actions of its government and army. I also respect that Jewish posters on here have said they would feel safer in Israel and I wholeheartedly wish that they are safe everywhere.
I take issue with @Terfymcnamechange saying this is Jew hate. It is not. It is a canvassing campaign for BDS action against an apartheid state, the very same action that overturned apartheid in South Africa. It is calling for the boycott, divestment or sanction (BDS) of Israeli goods, many of which are made or grown in illegal settlements.
The canvassers are not taking names of those who disagree, they are simply making a note of those who are not interested so as not to return to that door. All political canvassers do this.
Anti-Semitism is absolutely not welcome by me and I will fight that as much as I will fight for the rights of Palestinians to their freedom to live on their own land and in peace. And I do both. Anytime I see swastika graffiti I report to council and log with CST. Same within the Palestine movement - where I have seen placards that can be misconstrued as being anti-Jewish. It is not to be tolerated. You can't sew hate within a peace movement.
A genocide is not a proportionate response to October 7th - which I also condemn wholeheartedly. A proportionate response would have been for Israel to target Hamas. Israel has highly sophisticated weaponry that can target individuals and uses advanced technology to identify targets but has used it to murder civilians including aid workers, medics and their whole families, schools, hospitals, homes, children, elderly...Israel under international law is committing a genocide as well as operating an apartheid system against Palestinians.
These activists were doing what they believe could affect Israel - through BDS - and I agree with doing that, same as I agreed with trying to stop the actions of the South African government. Palestinians have been under Israeli occupation (including control of their travel, water, electricity) for decades. Now it is aid that is controlled and they are in forced starvation by Israel, with Ramadan imminent.
BDS activists are doing the moral thing - ias long as it is coupled with being respectful and kind to any Jewish person they encounter who doesn't feel safe because of the association ignorant people make with the actions of a genocidal state. It is not in their name. Peace x