@BenRossTransit i think israel, which was winning a slow war of consigning the palestinian cause to irrelevance on oct 6, is making the case against the possibility of a civilized zionism and therefore of “israel’s right to exist” as an explicitly jewish state despite the tensions of that formulation with contemporary liberal values. 1/

@BenRossTransit i don’t think you are fairly characterizing the piece. but whatever, i hold no brief for, know nothing about, its author. 2/

@BenRossTransit but if you don’t understand that a lot of people who were never israel’s enemies, including much of the jewish diaspora, now see project of Israel as we have understood it since 1947 as a definitive failure, as something unsupportable, rather than something simultaneously awkward and hopeful, then you are choosing not to understand. 3/

@BenRossTransit and if you don’t understand how the character of Israel’s actions is likely to give license to forms and degrees of antisemitism that for almost eighty years has been entombed by the moral clarity of the holocaust, well your not understanding won’t protect you, or me. 4/

@BenRossTransit i’ll just leave this there. /fin