he tends to take this point-of-view about all western citizens too. just edge lord bullshit “oh you are from the US okay you drench yourself daily in Iraqi blood” type bullshit.
I disagree with this comparison because it’s completely reasonable to expect someone to be ashamed of being American or of being Israeli, but not reasonable at all to expect someone to be ashamed of being Jewish.
There’s a qualitative difference between a nationality and an ethnicity/cultural group that predates any existing state.
My main problem with BE is that he’s just wrong a lot of the time, and actively and materially harmful to other people who are much better leftists than him.
I disagree with this comparison because it’s completely reasonable to expect someone to be ashamed of being American or of being Israeli, but not reasonable at all to expect someone to be ashamed of being Jewish.
There’s a qualitative difference between a nationality and an ethnicity/cultural group that predates any existing state.
My main problem with BE is that he’s just wrong a lot of the time, and actively and materially harmful to other people who are much better leftists than him.