What upsets me is when people equate Jews in general with the present Israeli government - exactly as if someone told me that, being English, I obviously hated the EU.
The other day when talking to someone who, until then, I had thought to be quite intelligent. We were talking about Syrian refugees and I mentioned that I was contributing to a Liberal synagogue in London who are restoring an apartment to house a refugee family. The person said “Well, why don’t you tell them to do something about their treatment of the Palestinians?”
I was appalled and the conversation became somewhat frosty, but then I remembered that some Zionists have tried to equate all Jews with support for Israel in the public mind. Be careful of what you wish for.
