As support for Israel drops in polls, Democrats are increasingly trying to distance themselves from the Gaza genocide. A common tactic is to place the blame on “the Netanyahu government,” but this ignores Israel’s long history of ethnic cleansing.

This summer, 1,500 Israeli soldiers will attend Jewish summer camps across North America. They will act as ambassadors for Israel as it carries out ethnic cleansing across Palestine. The Jewish community must reject this normalization of genocide.

Zionism offers a unifying identity for many American Jews. But as a Jew by Choice, born in Mexico and raised in the U.S., I’ve found that Black, Indigenous, and Chicanx thinkers’ theories of diaspora have helped me understand my own identity.

The war across the Middle East is part of a desperate effort to preserve Western superiority. All the fighting — whether in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Iran — is due to Zionism, and its role of enforcing the crushing force of the West.

Ideas of Jewish supremacy have been central to the Zionist movement from its beginning. Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied Palestine.

Iranians know the logic of Zionism, underwritten by the American empire, is what has naturally led to the devastation they are now experiencing. Palestinian liberation from Zionism can bring the entire region, including Iran, closer to freedom.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s vile and racist rant to a group of Republican DAs last week showed the man and the organization he leads for what they really are – a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Senator Chuck Schumer evidently thinks the Democrats’ best strategy is attacking the Trump administration from the right on this issue. Meanwhile, The pro-Israel camp is capitalizing on the Boulder, Colorado attack to demonize the Palestine movement.

A recent poll shows that the majority of Jewish Israelis agree that there is a current incarnation of the “Amalek”, the biblical enemy nation where the divine command was to eradicate them, and that it applies to Palestinians in the modern day.

India’s May 6 attack on Pakistan shows how the world’s inaction on the Gaza genocide has inspired Narendra Modi to escalate in Kashmir. From New Delhi to Tel Aviv, the ideological affinity between Zionism and Hindutva has never been clearer.