Winiarsky: Death of innocent people is not an anti -Semitic opinion

Israel's story is intertwined with my family: my grandmother was born in the same year when the United Nations recommended the partition plan, and she moved to Israel shortly afterwards. A few months before the outbreak of the six -day war, my father was born south of Tel Aviv. During my gap year I lived in the neighborhood of Tel Aviv, where my grandmother grew up.

Together with my religious beliefs, this personal story has shaped my wish for a Jewish state in our home country. Some people, including me, would call this Zionism.

I not only remove this because it is important to understand my perspective, but because I am in a unique position to express my opinions. I exist because Israel was a safe place for my grandparents after the Holocaust.

Despite my connections to Israel, I can't stop by because I mercilessly attack the military Gaza. There is no excuse for the destruction that took place against the innocent civilians who live there. The war must end.

Here are my main complaints with the war in Gaza:

1. The war is led to the personal win of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not for the good of Israel.

While Netanyahu claims that his goal is to save the hostages, this is demonstrably untrue. Some Israeli officials claimed that Netanyahu has thwarted agreements to bring them back. For this reason, Margalit Moses, a liberated hostage, refused to meet Netanyahu.

According to a survey by the Israeli network channel 12, 70% of Israelis prefer ceasefire and the publication of hostages through war. Tens of thousands of Israelis, including many of my relatives, take weekly protests to hear their wishes. Unfortunately, her screams fell on the pigeons of the right -wing government in Israeli history.

The war is personally an advantage for Netanyahu. It enables him to maintain the support of ultra law and to avoid the accountability obligation for his role in Hamas' attack on October 7th. Some Israeli officials pointed out that the Netanyahus government made it easier to finance Hamas in Qatar and ignored the warnings of an in -depth attack. A national billing will come when the war is over and it is in Netanyah's interests to push back this date.

2. If the goal of the war is to defeat Hamas, it was failed in writing from the start.

Netanyah's other declared goal is to defeat Hamas, which I also believe in a group of terrorists. Gazan civilists have taken to protest Hamas rule, whereby people calling this week. “Be aware that people in Gaza will dig their grave. ”

It does not need a military strategist to realize that killing all Hamas fighters is an impossible goal. Instead, the cruel Israeli retaliation will convey a deep hatred of Israel to the Gazan children who grow without limbs and parents and sow the seeds of further turbulence in the region.

3. The Israeli government does not take care of the Gazaner at all.

Millions of innocent people suffer in Gaza. Almost half of the population of Gaza is children who had nothing to do with the atrocities of October 7th – their only crime was born. However, the Israeli government clearly does not take care of the lives of innocent Gazans.

At the beginning of this week, Netanayhu explained that after almost three months of deprivation, he would resume help in Gaza strip, not because children were hungry, but because Israel lost support worldwide. In a similar way, finance minister Bezhalel Smotrich said: “Civilians in Gaza receive a pita and a plate of food and that is. “Hunger is therefore a war policy.

The Apathy of the Israeli government towards Palestinian civilians is particularly from activity in the occupied West Bank with frequent attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians. The Netanyahu government supported the expansion of these settlements.

4. It is not anti -Semitic to say that innocent people should not die.

A few weeks ago I was horrified to see The free press publish a piece entitled “The Gaza Hunger myth”. The article came from the same group of people who were rightly upset when the world denied the crimes that Hamas raised Israel on October 7. In other words, they want to believe that when people who support them appear, but if this group is connected with constant atrocities, it must be a lie.

I was equally horrified when the stopantisemitism of the Advocacy Group published a hit piece about Ms. Rachel, a content creator for children with almost 15 million YouTube subscribers, in the “AntiSemite of the Week” section. Her supposedly problematic behaviors included collecting money for Gazan families and the determination that Israel blocks help for Gaza strips. The organization called this “Hamas propaganda”.

Stopantisemitism later explained that Ms. Rachel was not referred to as an “anti -Semite of the week”, but also kept her alongside Kanye West on this section of the website for “organizational cohesion”.

Let me be clear: certain elements of the protests against Israel are anti -Semitic. The attention of Gazan -Zivilists' emergency is not. I understand and support Ms. Rachel's actions.

Mourning innocent life is not political. It is an act of humanity.

Allocations such as stopantisemitism dilute the actual importance of anti -Semitism, which is widespread in the United States. After I wrote this piece on Wednesday evening, two people were shot at an event for young Jewish experts at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC as an anti -Semitism as an excuse for the suppression of language or illness.

A problematic complication of this dynamic is that many people who require the allegations of anti -Semitism are not at all Jewish, but certain Christians that are motivated by the political gain, such as those of Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The New York Times recently published an investigation by the Esther project: a national strategy to combat anti -Semitism, a game book for politically fought protesters.

While the White House has not expressly said that you are using this game book to target College protests Pull off financing From universities.

I am not a stranger to criticize myself. In September I wrote a piece in the Chicago Sun-Times, in which the Republicans accused the hypocrisy about anti-Semitism, and received emails that I am a “Hamas supporter” and a “convenient idiot”. I do not agree on both points. While I can tell you that I think Hamas is a group of terrorists, you have to take my word to be an idiot.

However, rude accusations will not stop me. Although I was not born in Israel like my father, it is still a fundamental part of my personal history. If it is time to pass it on to my children, I will tell you about the people who were murdered on October 7, and the subsequent massacre of Gaza for retaliation. I would like to be able to tell you that I would like to express this mass extinction.

Talia Winiarsky is a vineyard junior. It can be contacted at [email protected]. If you want to publicly answer this open-ed, send a letter to the publisher to the publisher [email protected]. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all employees of the daily northwest.

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