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Straight from the horse's mouth https://www.adl.org/blog/straight-talk-on-the-charge-of-jewish-disloyalty
So your context is that the Jewish shill ADL lists the myriad accusations of Jewish disloyalty on account of their affinity for Israel, only to conclude that such accusations are baseless and anti-semitic because such an affinity is only natural for Jews to feel? Wonderful. You've truly convinced me. Praise be to the ADL.
Or maybe, just maybe, the ADL is full of shit. It is impossible to be a patriot of any nation if your primary loyalty lies elsewhere. I have no problem with Jews feeling an affinity for a Jewish state, of course. The problem only arises when they exert power and influence over nations whose best interests might be at odds with the best interests of Israel. And that's every nation that isn't Israel.
If merely pointing out that the conflict exists is anti-semitic, so be it. If having a problem with the conflict is further anti-semitic, then so it must be.
Maybe, perhaps, their affinity with Israel is simply the same affinity you have for Europe if you live in America?
I'm not in America, but you're right. It is much the same. It's also the reason I feel increasingly ill at ease the more multicultural my nation becomes.
There was a time that my affinity with European ancestry was in alignment with the nation I lived in. The country was built by European settlers and their culture was the basis for the nation that grew out of that foundation. Now an affinity for European culture is seen as white supremacy and advocating for the interests of my people is perceived as being at odds with the goals of the country I was born in. The country my father was born in, and his father before him, and his father before him.
An affinity for your ancestors is a good thing. It's bad for a nation that's no longer controlled by your ancestors, however. There's a reason my views are no longer seen as acceptable by the mainstream culture. Why then are the same Jewish sentiments so vehemently protected?
Because they have the same right to feel the same thing you feel when you think about the country your father was born, and on and on.
It is the exact same thing. No difference.
If you are in Canada, it is the same thing, if you are somewhere in Europe, but your ancestors hail form some other part of Europe. EXACT SAME THING.
The difference, maybe, is that one of those nations is in constant threat, not only from idiots who attacks it for anything(even blaming it for their own failing), but from the local powers. Plus, it is a country where it was created because a certain number of people got murdered in a certain genocide.
So maybe it is kinda bad when one makes a blind eye when an American says "I'm Irish!" when he is 4th gen American, and attacks a Jewish man who is second gen American who say "I like Israel".
My ancestors came to America over 200 years ago. I've met and interacted with natives who still live in my ancestral homeland: their ways are not my ways, I have little in common with them, and they wouldn't mistake me for being one of them.
I have far more affinity for the area of America my family settled and still mostly lives in than a country my family hasn't lived in for centuries. But even then I want what's best for the part of America I live in and prioritize that far above parts of America I don't live in, even if much of my extended family still does.
I don't understand what's so hard to understand about that: you support your community over others because you live there. If you support other communities over your own, maybe you should be living in those other communities.
First and foremost you need to differentiate thingsbhere, as supporting Israel has become polarized. Same way as supporting South Korea over North Korea, or Japan vs China. Even more polarized than supporting Ukraine over Russia. So you will find an overwhelming amount of people, Jews or not supporting Israel, and the other overwhelming amount of people supporting its destruction.
But, if you still feel afinity(if you don't, you are an exception) to the country of origin of your family even a little, you have no place to dictate Jewish support for Israel. And you have no place to even criticize Israeli support if you even rooted for any Nato country in any intervention. Or if you even rooted or showed support for Catholics or protestants in Ireland, enjoyed st. Patrick's day, Cinco de Mayo, or even rooted for any other country, allied or not to America for whatever reason.