UNLIKE with nazi Germany or putinist Russia, conflating the Israeli state with the people it claims to represent (and doesn't!) *can* lead to places even *worse* than "just" ignoring resistance from within and internally oppressed people.
There isn't a systematic hatred of people of "German" or "Russian" heritage that has threaded non-German/non-Russian cultures for centuries.
And as leftists, we need to be aware of that, while still criticizing Israel's genocide.