These shortcuts serve us especially poorly right now wrt Israel and Palestine. In particular, they obscure the straightforward truth:
Antisemitism is on the rise. It has horrific historical precedent. Everyone deserves protection from such horrors. Hamas committed such horrors in October. The Likud government is currently committing such horrors, at massive scale.
No contradiction there. But if you think nations are people and people are either good guys or bad guys, it’s incomprehensible.
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