I wish people on social media and elsewhere could discuss this conflict with resorting to anti-semitism, Islamophobia, or accusations thereof. It should be perfectly fine to criticize Israel the country’s past and current actions without casting aspersions on the Jewish faith. Likewise criticism of Hamas should not equal criticism of Islam. Support for one side is not an attack on the other side’s religion.
Of course religion is woven deeply into this conflict, but criticizing things on a religious basis is a very broad brush that affects many innocent people.
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