We want them to be liberals. We don’t want them to be anti-Zionist. And I’ll say it positively: We want them to be liberals. And liberalism implies for American Jews support of Israel and Zionists.
We don’t measure morality or proportionality by how many people died on this side or that side.
Nooooo don't look at the nearly 40x more people we've murdered in """""self defense""""", 70% of whom are women and children
Israel is fighting a war of self-defense, an existential war of self-defense started by those who do not wish to tolerate a Jewish person in the Middle East.
History began on October 7, 2023 and not a moment sooner.
If the other side had the power, they would massacre not only 1,200 Israelis, but 120,000 or a million
But absent grounding in concern and care for our own people, it’s not Jewish universalism — it’s just universalism. It’s Kantian. So what we did well is we conveyed all of those values that we consider central to us — justice, righteousness, mercy, compassion, peace, freedom — but we did not convey well enough the essential bonds that Jews have to other Jews.
we taught our kids all these cool values AND THEY BELIEVED IT, THE LITTLE IDIOTS!