Gosh I'm a little shocked by this @apshamilton ... Where on earth are you getting your information from?
None of this backlash against Israel is anti semitic, it's anti indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in targeted attacks by their army. All of what the IDF do and have done is well documented. It's not a defensive army, it's ruthless, calculated machine that is hell bent on eliminating Gaza. It's so well documented I'm a little shocked you don't see this. And lest you say I am pro Hamas, that's obviously not the case, as everyone that's anti genocide by IDF keep saying and should not have to keep saying.
I'm also a bit shocked at you calling people idiots. That's not how we interact on Hive, surely, even if our opinions differ?
Dear @riverflows I get this information first hand because I actually LIVE in Israel, unlike you and @saltycat who have likely NEVER visited Israel, or Iran, or Gaza or Lebanon or indeed anywhere in the Middle East.
My family with 3 young special needs kids has had to shelter in the safe room night after night as Iran and its proxies like Hamas, Hizbollah and Houthis fired huge missiles at entirely civilian targets, sometimes (fortunately rarely) hitting apartment blocks quite near my home and my kids schools and kindergartens.
I hear the interceptors fire and blow most, but not all, these genocidal missiles out of the sky. I speak directly to soldiers who have served in Gaza and witnessed the weapons, tunnels and hate material in almost EVERY home. They are SO careful (far too careful IMHO) to protect Gazans not directly firing at them.
If Israel wanted to kill as many Gazans as possible there would be ZERO Gazans alive today. We would have simply stopped supplying food, water and electricity (which we are perfectly entitled to do in wartime and they have a border with Egypt (who they are not at war with) to get supplies).
The the so called "documented" information you are referring to is utterly false, terrorist propaganda debunked by real military experts like Maj Andrew Fox (UK) & Col. John Spencer (US) & Col Richard Kemp (UK) and many others who HAVE actually visited the battlefields.
Ask yourself what you really know, from first hand experience and you will realise it is NOTHING! You are relying on news sources that parrot Hamas propaganda because they are paid billions by Qatar and Iran or are just rank anti-semites.
Anyone who believes and repeats the propaganda of a proscribed terrorist group like Hamas not only breaks the law by supporting a proscribed terrorist group, but is also complicit in Iran & its proxies attempted genocide of Jews. If that is not idiocy, I don't know what is.
Western countries are increasingly recognise that "pro-palestine" groups and those that falsely claim genocide in Gaza are domestic terrorists that endanger their own countries and are pure anti-semites. Mass arrests are already happening in the US, UK & parts of Europe.
You are on the wrong side of history on this. Making false accusations against Jews to justify their murder is EXACTLY what the German Nazis did.
I suggest you reconsider your position.
If you truely cared about the Gazan people you would be protesting about Egypt not letting them leave a war zone.
I am sorry you live in a war zone. It must be very difficult. But could your fear not be skewing your understanding, just as it skewed the understandin of most people during the covid con? Did you experience, as I did, calls for me to be placed in a concentration camp for my lifestyle choice to not be jabbed? Were you thought to be a deadly force, an enemy of the people, a terrorist? I was called all of those things, I moved to a different part of NYS just to feel safer from that enmity, that government-fed enmity. I was on the front lines then, you are on the front lines now. I appreciate your perspective, and certainly with first hand experience like this you have much for us to learn from, but those in Gaza are saying the exact same things about you. The conflict has been deliberately managed by our ruling class, and has little to nothing to do with the actions of civilians living in those areas. Lies about both of you abound!