Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon

The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in Gaza

More than nine months after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that concluded Israel was committing genocide - and more than a month since key Israeli human rights groups asserted the same - the American political establishment remains in rigid denial while horrors continue nonstop in Gaza. Virtually all Republicans and most Democrats in Congress still support massive US arms shipments to Israel, so they certainly can't admit that the weaponry is making genocide possible.

Central to rationales for arming Israel is the claim that it is the nation of the Jewish people".

Norman Solomon is the director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His latest book is War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.