Americans are finally taking a critical approach to Israel. We can do that without sliding into antisemitism | Joel Swanson

The Guardian · March 5, 2026 War
Americans are finally taking a critical approach to Israel. We can do that without sliding into antisemitism | Joel Swanson

Israel’s role in drawing the US into a war on Iran is attracting healthy scrutiny. It’s also creating a permission structure for antisemitism The joint US-Israel military strikes on Iran have forced a reckoning that American political culture has been approaching for years, but has perhaps never had to face as head-on as it does right now. It is a reckoning that contains two urgent, legitimate, and partially contradictory imperatives – and neither should be abandoned.

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