This is a grave moment for humanity.

Netanyahu’s opponents in Israel are now accusing him of pushing for war with Iran to serve his own political interests. Their criticism echoes warnings in Washington that he helped draw the US into war with Tehran — an argument that brought accusations of anti-Semitism against critics including former US counterterrorism chief Joe Kent.

The twisted part here is that neoliberalism has stifled any criticism of Israel that isn’t rightwing and antisemitic (Why are people like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens allowed to run free in the meadows of antisemitism without consequences? This is a choice we made as a culture and it had terrible consequences.), which sets up the rightwing antisemitic narrative to turn around and blame jews for stabbing us in the back and dragging the innocent US into this mess… which murderously ignores the complicity of the US, of all of us… which is genuinely one of the reasons I have tried to be so proactive in my criticism of Israel to pre-empt this reduction of a nuanced attrocity involving many necessary international actors to enable it down to a simple easy story of “the jews stabbed us in the back again!” that feels (in a way I see as extraordinarily dangerous) righteous and refreshingly simple compared to the bloody truth.