@Alon @BenRossTransit I don' know anything about the "Zionist doctors" line on Twitter, but I strongly disagree with the claim that anti-Zionism is a type of antisemitism. certainly there are plenty of antisemites who hide under the label antizionist, for sure. but there are lots of antizionist Jews, for example. 1/

@Alon @BenRossTransit i've always been a squish-middle liberal diaspora Jew, conscious of the dissonance between some liberal values I uphold and the notion of an avowedly "Jewish state" where Judaism is exclusive, not just a national heritage into which all are free to assimilate. Nevertheless, Israel has in its history had some very admirable aspects, and the Jewish experience has been exceptional. 2/

@Alon @BenRossTransit i, like most diaspora Jews, have been willing to live with the tension between our general ideals about how a modern state should define itself and Israel, treating it hopefully as an experiment in reconciling disparate goods and values. but it's getting harder to resist a conclusion that the second intifada, and the change in the Israeli polity that trauma provoked, has shown the model simply to be unworkable in actual practice, a failure. 3/

@Alon @BenRossTransit i don't quite identify as antizionist yet. but a few months more of this, the endlessly ticking clock of more than 30,000 lives, people ill and starving in ways my own Jewish imagination cannot fail to connect to concentration camps, might well push me over that line. /fin