Caitlin Johnstone on X. Always a great read.

"When liberal Zionists want to support Israel's actions, they talk about Israel as a nation, e.g. "Israel has a right to defend itself". When liberal Zionists want to criticize Israel's actions, they make it all about Netanyahu, e.g. "Netanyahu's war machine."

When Israel deserves our sympathy it's a collective, but when Israel is naughty the responsibility lies solely at the feet of one bad apple. This ensures that the weapons can keep flowing to Israel (because Israel as a whole is virtuous and worthy of support) while the liberal Zionist still gets to wear their progressive humanitarian clothing (because they wagged their fingers at Netanyahu).

And it's just a complete fiction. Netanyahu didn't create Israel's genocidal tendencies, Israel's genocidal tendencies created Netanyahu. His entire political career has been made possible by Israel's collective racism and psychopathy upon which he rode into office.

This is nothing other than the classic Obama-style tactic of using attractive progressivish language to advance the most destructive agendas of the US empire. In other words, it's Democrats being Democrats."