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I was curious about this so I looked around and found this podcast from Sept 2025 where Spiegelman says this (emphasis mine):

I was, you know, I was certainly talking with my friends [about Gaza], talking about everything, but how do you actually make a difference? The thing is, I had to because the people who are defending the Israeli position were defending from a position of Israel being the last bastion of defense for Jews. That this was where you go and you'll be protected and you'll be fighting for your people and your religion. I'm not very religious. I have friends that are Jewish, but also some others here and there, so it's not like that. And I had no interest in Israel ever, ever, from the time I was there once as a kid. So all I knew for sure is I'm a diaspora Jew, and all I found out as I was looking at the news and hearing Netanyahu is his only big enemy besides Hamas is the diaspora Jews. We're the target. Because if you're not there fighting for the Zionist cause, you're a traitor of some kind.

I thought, okay he doesn't seem like a raging zionist but wow it's really disappointing he doesn't use the term genocide ONCE in this interview despite him talking about his collaboration with Joe Sacco. Then I found (at least part of) the comic they drew together and, well: