NOT  IN  OUR  NAME  Declare Jewish Peace Organizations, by Paul Craig Roberts

Not surprisingly, many Jews do not want any association with the slaughter and actively oppose it. From Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts.org:

Organizations of the Zionist Lobby, such as ADL and AIPAC, and Netanyahu have created more anti-semitism than have all of those slandered by them as anti-semites.  The open and brutally insulting way in which AIPAC and Netanyahu flaunt  their domination over the US Government offends many Americans, and ADL’s defamation of people who criticize aspects of Israeli policy, such as President Jimmy Carter, have alienated many more.  Many wonder why a person can criticize US, Russian, Chinese, and every other country’s policies without being slandered as anti-American, anti-Russian, anti-Chinese, but can only genuflect  to Israel.  

Zionists are clever propagandists.  They have succeeded in convincing Americans that they speak for all Israelis and all Jews.  Such is far from the case. There is strong opposition to Zionism among Israeli Jews.  Many oppose the treatment of the Palestinians.  There are Israeli Jewish organizations that oppose the theft of Palestinian land in the West Bank and the demolition of Palestinian homes in order to construct apartment buildings for “settlers.”  Many Israeli Jews oppose the current bombing of Gaza. Netanyahu has minority support.  He is in office only because he was able to put together a coalition of hard rightwing parties.  It is the mistaken belief that Zionists speak for Israel and all Jews that causes Republicans such as Lindsay Graham, Mike Johnson, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis to be such strong supporters of the current Israeli indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.

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