Why are some of the left celebrating the killings of Israeli Jews? | Naomi Klein

Some continue to minimize massacres of Israeli civilians, and some even seem to celebrate them - this only fuels militant Zionism

I spent the evening in candlelight and tears with a dear friend who just learned that a close family member was among those massacred in Israel. I won't name the kibbutz to protect her privacy but yes, it was unequivocally a massacre.

We tried to explain the killing of this family member - a civilian with two kids - to our kids. We tried to do it in a way that would not fill their young hearts with fear and hatred for the people who committed the crime. That was hard enough, but possible. Harder for us adults is the fact that some of our supposed comrades on the left continue to minimize massacres of Israeli civilians, and some even seem to celebrate them, as if doing so proves their bad-ass anti-Zionism.

Naomi Klein is a Guardian US columnist and contributing writer. She is the professor of climate justice and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her latest book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World was published in September