Ultranationalist Zionism, fueled by religious fanaticism, is in no way representative of Judaism, nor should it be assimilated to it. Judaism is a culture and a religion that we should not spare now, remembering that they constitute a pillar of human history. But it is worth mentioning, now that the horror unleashed by the Israeli government in Gaza serves as an easy excuse for an anti-Semitism as ancient and deeply rooted among us as it is irrational. And now also when supporters of ethnic cleansing in Palestine dare to attribute accusations of hatred of Jews, or of Nazism, to those who criticize, protest, or protest against the genocidal policies of Netanyahu and his government.
We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that Netanyahu is not an extravagant monster, but the prime minister of a far-right government. We shouldn't forget either that we're no better than anyone else here, and that if we don't have a far-right government now, we could have one one day or another, and more than we probably think (in the Balearic Islands and Valencia, we already have them, at the regional level). We mustn't doubt that any far-right government is ideologically predisposed to cause a hell like the one Netanyahu and his governing partners have caused in Palestine. and now, in Gaza City. They only need a unifying enemy (they quickly find one), dehumanizing this enemy so that killing it seems like an act of self-defense, and enough power and maneuverability to ignite the scarcity of violence. From this point on, the very human condition causes many people, of whom we would never have said anything, to be drawn into the spiral of hatred to the point of supporting any atrocity.
Cynicism and victimhood are also two potent fuels for hatred. Netanyahu, in particular, is not even a fanatic, unlike many of the ministers and senior officials in the government he presides, and many of the powers that be paid by Likud and the other parties that are part of the government or support it (Shas, United Torah Judaism, Noam, Otzma Yehudit), and the Party itself. Long before he was a fanatic, Benjamin Netanyahu Bibi Netanyahu is above all a cynic, capable of not hesitating to lead a policy of extermination (genocide, according to the United Nations definition) to avoid his outstanding debts to justice, due to corruption.
Regarding victimhood. Of the crimes and sins (because, when we talk about people using religion to justify a massacre, we must talk about sins) that the Israeli government has committed and continues to commit, one of the most serious is having sobbed and insulted the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Invoking them to try, once again, to justify the unjustifiable. This is how the citizens of Israel, the intellectuals, and the former political and military leaders who demonstrate against the genocide and call (in vain) for a ceasefire understand it, as do the families of Hamas hostages who plead for an end to the war so that an equally despicable captivity can end.
