It isn't. Anyone who claims Israel is our homeland is full of shit. Israel doesn't care about non-Israeli Jews, they care about Israel — which would actually be fine, if American Jews would stop this bullshit veneer of "Israel is your homeland."

Bullshit. They'll welcome you if you fit their narrow box of what Judaism means. I know a guy who was raised Conservative and married an Israeli woman. He tried to emigrate to Israel and they wouldn't let him. Why? Because his birth mother — a woman he had not seen since he was 4, as opposed to his Jewish stepmother…

It's like this weird cycle of abuse where a child who is beaten grows up to beat their children. A population of Jews were targeted for genocide, now a certain population of Jews needs to grow up and form a state that forcibly sterilizes immigrants without their knowledge and is terrible concerned with ethnicity and…

This is me as well. One of the most disturbing things I've seen (and I purposely try to avoid talking about it with people b/c it makes me feel icky...and yes, I'm a terrible person) was Anthony Bourdain's episode of Parts Unknown in Israel/Gaza. If you watch it, he goes to a settlement in Gaza where "youths" have…

lol what kids suffering in Israel

Yep. I'm Jewish, went through the system...I don't live in Israel, and they certainly don't give a shit about my opinion, and they don't let me vote...so how is it "my" homeland again?

The justification essentially boils down to "we have historically been discriminated against, therefore its not wrong of us to become the oppressors." Sure. That's fucking logical.

The knee-jerk support for Israel from some Jewish people has always been disturbing to me. During one of the many conflicts between Israel and Palestine, a Jewish woman said that when her kids complained about their first-world problems she would tell them to think about the children suffering in Israel. And I…

No, that's not the case. Instead of backing a country, the U.S. can back a solution—a diplomatic solution like you say.

The New Zealand Army isn't dropping white phosphorus bombs on Maori villages for a start

Actually, the main reason this country generally supports Israel is because they have an amazing PR machine. If you have a chance, check out "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land", a documentary about the Israeli PR campaign in this country. It's fascinating. It completely changed my mind about the entire conflict.

Impossible since the bombs falling were bought with US taxpayer money.

Yeah, those girls are definitely in a warzone. Just look at all the horror they're experiencing!

Take a look at those pictures and try telling me they live in a warzone. Then try finding some luxurious selfies from the Palestinians getting carpetbombed.

Shit, even my Polish Catholic grandparents, who survived the concentration camps in Poland in WWII, didn't side with the Israelis.

My family are Israeli-Arabs. Thanks for the laugh about living in peace. I'm guessing you've never been to an Arab village in Israel before. They are treated like third class citizens. But, that is nothing compared to what is happening in Gaza. These racist morons are joining the army too? I pray for Palestine.

All religions are deserving of scorn and ridicule. Religion is destructive, pointless and stupid. Theyre all bad.

Most Americans dont automatically support Israel. Most White, Conservative, and Jewish Americans automatically support Israel. Virtually no one outside of those demographics sides with Israel. There is a vital difference there.

"it's hard to look at these tweets (and their accompanying pictures and Twitter avatars) and not feel a mixture of sadness, shame, disgust, and also sympathy."

WTF? Please, Mark, explain why you feel sympathy for these tweets calling for people to die because of their ethnicity.

In a million years I could never post this article on my Facebook page; I would be attacked as anti-Semitic and told that these pictures are fake and were made up by Hamas.