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That's a very understandable thought for many really awful reasons. For what it's worth though, there are some folks who judge based on actions - not ethnicity or where a person was born/resides. I have a lot of admiration for Jews who are willing to speak up in support of human rights and ethical treatment. Especially since I have a Jewish friend who was shunned by their family in a cruel way for daring to speak and act with their conscience instead of according to pressure.
It's a worse time being a Palestinian, but of course most people can't overcome their internal racism to recognize or articulate it.
One bad thing does not negate another bad thing just because it's worse.
I like to think that the people who are Humanists and thus are the most intenselly against the way Israel is acting because of how much it goes against their Humanist Principles (you know, "though shall not mass murder people because of their etnicity"), are also the most likelly to not judge people badly just because of their religion, including in this situation people who are Jews and who given their own Principles are against the actions of Israel.
The problem as usual are the racists, the entire range of them, including those who are Jews, those who are anti-semite and those who whilst being non-Jews support Zionist supremacism or are simply Islamophobic.
For me the single most shocking thing in all this is how all the closet racists came out and we're seing things like Germany rabbidly defending Genocide with no other argument than the race of the aggressors, the very way of thinking as the supposedly "never again" old days.
That said, as others pointed out, the pain of Humanist Jews is nothing compared to what Palestinians are suffering at the hands of ultra-racist Jews and the racists supporting them in the West, so the Humanist Principle of "Minimizing Pain" would dictate that the pain of such Jews is far far behind in the order of priority of things to address than stopping the continued massacre of Palestinians.
Do you denounce Likud?
Do you ask every Muslim if they denounce Al Qaeda?
Congratulations. You proved that it's a really shitty time to be Jewish.
Congratulations, you just spectactularly missed the point.
Every Palestinian objecting to the genocide has been cut off and asked if they denounce Hamas before they even get to finish a sentence.
And y'know, maybe just maybe consider that in some respects the late 1930s were a shitty time to be German, too - but it would have been kind of insensitive to look for sympathy on that basis.
Which is a bad thing, so maybe don't do it to Jews when they haven't even stated their position.