The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a U.S. pro-Israel lobbying organization. No doubt it is influential, but anti-Israel groups as well as groups and individuals who believe in a Jewish conspiracy vastly overestimate its power. In any case, what is the connection between AIPAC and a Jewish school or synagogue in the Netherlands or any other country? This gets complicated because we are getting into the definition of words and the context in which they are used. What is an atrocity in war? It doesn't have an "official" definition and your concept of an atrocity could differ from mine. A lot of it depends on how a chain of events is interpreted and that inherently subjective. There are varying versions of the buried ambulance incident and I'm not sure what really happened. If I become convinced it was an atrocity, I would then condemn it. No, I don't believe there is anything wrong with the culture in the IDF. Any potential war crimes or atrocities would be the result of panicked actions by individuals or small groups which came under stress. I agree 100% that, "It is completely wrong." I believe we should focus on correcting that "wrongness" rather than accepting Jews outside Israel are unfairly blamed for actions by the Israeli government. I know you prefer the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism to the IHRA definition. One of the examples of antisemitism in the Jerusalem Declaration is, "Holding Jews collectively responsible for Israel’s conduct or treating Jews, simply because they are Jewish, as agents of Israel." https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ Blaming all Jews for the actions of the Israeli government is blatant antisemitism and should be refuted by everyone who's not an antisemite. I do not believe Jews outside Israel who side with Israel and deny atrocities make the situation worse. It's silence that males the situation worse.
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