Ken Burch
1 min readJan 26, 2025

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Nobody gets to lecture anybody, but it can't just be that if somebody who happens to be Jewish calls something "antisemitic" that nobody has any right to disagree with that edict.

Look at how unjustly such claims were used against Jeremy Corbyn- a man who spent decades organizing protests AGAINST antisemitism- and his supporters- none of whom were guilty of anything other than treating Palestinians as human beings.

But I won't expect you to respond to that.

This is a fair question, however:

given that the past fifteen months have proved that it isn't possible to "crush Hamas"(most Israelis now accept that it isn't) and that, therefore, there is no longer any justification for continuing to attack innocent Gazan citizens, how can you still defend Netanyahu's pointless, unwinnable war?

Also, why do YOU not see these obvious truths:

1) Netanyahu shares the blame for Hamas being in power in Gaza because of all the years he spent "bolstering"(his word) that organization solely to weaken Fatah, the reasonable, moderate Palestinian leadership that was willing to compromise;

2) October 7th- a barbaric event I and many other leftists, gentile and Jewish, have repeatedly condemned- proved that Zionism doesn't actually protect Jews from anything anymore.

Why are you still going to the mat over what you know, based on the lived experience of Israel/Palestine over the last few decades, hasn't worked and can never work?

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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