From Micha K. Ben-David, a former IDF soldier and the co-founder of Breaking the Silence. This is a response to the violent attack on the pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, CO yesterday. Re-posted from Ben-David’s Facebook account.

Please. Yeah. I’m pissed.

Because the Israel Lobby, the Zionist communities, and whoever else has their PR hands in this, are already spinning what happened in Boulder into some textbook case of antisemitism. And I hate to say it—but this wasn’t that. Not even close.

I’ve lived in the U.S. for a few years now. I’ve seen real antisemitism—actual swastika-drawing, conspiracy-spewing, neo-Nazi, Christian nationalist, white supremacist hate. The everyday kind that shows up at city halls and school boards, the kind that attacks synagogues and fuels mass shootings. And yeah—it scares the shit out of me. Not just as a Jew. As a human.

But that kind of hate doesn’t come from the Palestinian movement. It doesn’t come from Muslims. And it doesn’t only come for Jews. It hits everyone—Black communities, immigrants, queer folks, anyone who doesn’t fit inside some twisted white fantasy of who deserves to exist.

So no, what happened in Boulder was not that.

I’ve seen that march. Every Sunday, up and down Pearl Street. I’ve watched them defend the un-defendable. I’ve seen the signs that ask people to look away from a genocide, to doubt their own eyes, to stay silent—not just in passive complicity, but in loud, moral support of mass death. It’s not subtle. It’s not peaceful. It’s not neutral.

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