for engaging in genocide. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220526450

it's great to see people of conscience make their views known.

So grateful to be among like-minded spirits.

I watched a former Green Beret who has done 9 combat tours shake and break down today over what he saw being done to human beings in Gaza. The horror must end and everyone who was complicit must be held to account. Our collective humanity is at stake.

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Netanyahu needs to go on trial for his war crimes.

STOP STARVING GAZA!

personally identify Jews as complicit is bullshit.

Why no demands for them to open their borders and get aid through?
Oh, and why don't they just release the hostages who might still be clinging to life after being starved, raped and beaten?

Egyptians are in prison for advocating for this.

pad to attack Israel whatever the consequences, but Israel gets all the blame for their complicity. Some of those countries are rich as hell and harboring Hamas.

teaches us about killing of innocents.

I will wait right here and see if you get a response from the OP for singling out Jews, though I doubt you will get an answer.

There are many Israelis and Jews who do not support Netanyahu or a policy of genocide or collective punishment, and are working actively against it. These people should be "singled out" - for praise. The article is from Haaretz.

it doesn't matter how he identifies either, because he is is providing an excuse for anti-Jewish bigotry.

No surprise that some would have no problem with this.

and so what if if he is a rabbi, Meir Kahane was a rabbi and a racist piece of garbage, Norman finkelstein is a vile holocaust piece of garbage minimizer.

No surprise at all, but quite illuminating.

No different than those who were enthralled with Reverend Wright collecting blaming of all white people for the ills of the world.

Oh, he is a rabbi, oh he is a Jew, so it is OK to collectively blame ALL Jews for complicity if they don’t do something.

!@#$%^&*()!

THE HOLY LAND

Has the International Red Cross visited them lately to make sure they are receiving food and basic care? Any updates?

My understanding is that Israel is trying to help the UN get the supplies that have been waiting to cross into Gaza delivered and there has been quite a bit of aid getting in for almost a week and delivered to Gazans mostly, though a lot of it is still being stolen by Hamas.

FYI - Deuteronomy 16:20 often gets truncated. This is the whole sentence.

Some British even used quotes to justify British colonialism.

And not only are IDF soldiers shooting at the hungry men getting food but Americans were shooting too accordingly to a whistleblower former green beret

Tony Aguilar is a retired Special Forces Green Beret who won a Purple Heart for his service to this country.

He took a contract helping to distribute aid in Gaza.

There, he witnessed atrocities committed using American taxpayer dollars.”
Please watch this important video.

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And then he started threatening his colleagues in order to get his job back. Nine other contractors gave sworn statements attesting to his incompetence, narcissism, threats and lies. He lied to people about receiving a silver star, he lied about having cancer. There are saved text messages, with the Metadata proving all this.

When he was in the military, he lost his battalion command because he was arrested for BEATING HIS WIFE.

Lt. Col. (R) Tony Aguilar is not only a liar, but he is also an unhinged, incompetent narcissist and wife beater. Nothing he says should be considered credible.

AMY GOODMAN: In related news, a group of at least 21 U.S. senators has written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, urging the U.S. to stop funding the shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which was created to take over aid deliveries in Gaza, replacing the United Nations. Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen is the lead author of the letter. He appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday and said the aid sites have been turned into death traps.

SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: American taxpayers should not be spending one penny to fund this private organization, backed by mercenaries and by the IDF, that has become a death trap. Over a thousand people have died from being shot and killed as starving people crowd to try to get food at just these four sites.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/29/anthony_aguilar_ghf_war_crimes

Should someone who had no connection to Judaism and israel be held responsible because they were born to jewish parents. Should I as someone who was born to an Italian american and a jewish american but has never practiced Judaism or been to Israel or even gave it a thought be held responsible. Sorry I dont believe in collective guilt.

Jews or saying Jews are wholly responsible. They talk about the teachings in the Jewish religion. That is why they are imploring Jews to act. It’s about our religion and our tenants. I don’t get the misunderstanding of the OP title or the Rabbi’s words.

And even a solid number of Israelis aren't in favor of what's happening. As an American I don't hold myself morally responsible for the torture committed by the Bush administration or what the Trump administration is doing. I voted, donated, and protested against it, but lack the effective ability to do more to stop it. The Israelis against it also lack more effective tools. It's not fair to expect them to try to run aid convoys or try to sabotage the IDF.

It's difficult because of the history of people blaming Jews as a whole for things. It's different than saying Christians because of that history even though a Christian leader might use the same phrasing in terms of using the religion's name. And it's hard because Jewish is both religious and secular in a way American, or French is not. It's an identity that has been used to persecute.

I don't think the rabbi intended it to be ready as people are, but I understand why some people do.

We probably should have a better term for secular Jews, but it's a complicated history and we don't.

And that completely ignores the history of the last several thousand years. The Jews were blamed for the Black Death for example. There is a great deal of reason to be explicitly clear when talking about this subject to avoid confusion whether the confusion is legitimate or in less than good faith. You seem to assume it's just the later.

Jews as a whole are not Israel and not responsible for Israel's actions. Not even all Israelis are. Confusing the two is what leads to things like the bigot in Boulder throwing Molotov cocktails at old Jewish people, or the guy who shot and killed two random people at a Jewish event.

As I said before I don't think that's what the rabbi was doing because I think by default he would be talking from the religious perspective, but it leads to people misreading because unfortunately that's been primed by centuries of bigotry.

That is all

Just because someone is Jewish, it does not in any way make them responsible for the actions of a foreign country. Just as someone with Russian ancestry is not responsible for the actions of the current government of Russia. The same is true of Muslims. They are not responsible for acts of Islamic extremists.
My ethnic background is Italian and Irish. But I was born in the US. As were my parents and 3 of my grandparents and most of my great grandparents. I should not be held accountable for the actions of either Italy or Ireland. Nor should I be held accountable for the actions of the Catholic church despite being raised Catholic.
Requiring Jews to be held accountable for the actions of the Netanyahu government is an excuse for Antisemitism.

I don't read it as requiring Jews be held accountable or making us responsible. Rather that we all examine our conscience and do all we can to stop this. The Rabbi is pretty clear and said "If We Don't Act Now". Because now, we all know. There can be no excuse that we didn't know.

There's the old saying that silence is complicity, but I go further. Silence isn't just complicity, it's consent.

For the record, I and many I know do feel accountable for the actions of the Trump government. Is it not our job to care for our brother? Is it not our job to hold our government accountable? Whitewashing, looking away or being silent when things are done in our name is complicity. I think indifference is complicity too.

The reference to Jews abroad was pretty specific. Speak out and stop funding organizations that support Netanyahu's crimes, especially when him and his ilk go on and on about doing it in our name. We have a lot of power, we need to wield it for good.

And I agree with your thoughts that it’s up to all decent people to object to the horrific actions of the government of Israel. I just don’t like the implication that Jewish people should be singled out. After 9/11 it was required that every Muslim condemn every incident of Islamic terrorism. I even remember some complaining that African American leaders, like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, didn’t condemn them harshly enough. Too many use this kind of virtue signaling to bash minority groups that they don’t like.

I see it more as an appeal to us, not singling out. Especially when Likud and organizations that support it broadcast very loudly that this is being done in our name. But I see your point.

I know how much it irked me to watch people like Piers Morgan badgering interviewees with "Do you condemn Hamas". Thank you