Pogroms are being perpetrated by Jewish Israelis.

What a sentence.

They’re not doing it because this behavior is somehow inherent to Jewishness.

They are doing it because this behavior is inherent to racist colonialism and nationalism.

It’s not antisemitic to critique the atrocious behavior of the Israeli government and some of Israel’s citizens unless your critique is rooted in the idea that Jews are fundamentally a problem, that Judaism is the essential cause of the behaviors.

To blame this shit on Jewishness is to pretend that whiteness and colonialism as projects were invented by Jews, as if Christians — with the extensive spiritual and fiscal support of the Catholic Church — weren’t the primary perpetrators of racism and colonialism on this planet

(The latter point was made first by James Baldwin)