Just wanted to say you’re getting a skewed picture of people’s opinions, as Lemmy isn’t popular / well known at all in Israel.

The absolute majority of Jews in Israel are united in wanting the hostages back (currently 58, of which an estimated half are still alive).

A lot want that and to end the war ASAP, not for any real concern for the Palestinians, but for the troops, the economy, and world image.

A lot want to keep going to eradicate Hamas and Hezbollah and Houthis to prevent October 7th from ever happening again.

It’s difficult to be pro Palestinian when your friends and family have been slaughtered or held hostage by a (seemingly) unprovoked attack against soldiers and civilians.

The Overton window in Israel doesn’t currently allow it, though things might have been changing very recently.

At least here, we don’t discuss it much in the same way we don’t discuss the mountain near town; it’s there, we can’t move it, shrug your shoulders, it’s part of the landscape.

Zionism is the belief the Jewish people deserve a place to call their own, similar to the belief the Italian people deserve a place to call their own. Antizionism is the belief the Jewish people don’t deserve a place to call their own.

Had someone came up and said the Italian people don’t deserve a place to call their own, would you not call them racist towards Italians?

Why not the same here?

You can be against the actions of the Israeli government (I definitely am), but saying it shouldn’t exist is a whole other ballpark.