I have several very close Jewish friends and they seem to swing from, birthright is disgusting propaganda meant to increases the amount of Jewish people, to. Where will we all live. All with in the same convo and minutes apart.
The closes analogy in my life i can think of was how shattering the child rape news about the Catholic Church was to me when i was younger. But i don't think that even really comes close.
The older my Jewish friends the more weird no historical context other than the Holocaust takes they have. Id say that is basically any Jewish person over 35+ To be very blunt. Many older Jews do think they are extremely special for being Jewish and that they are basically above everyone else because of it. I've had their Boomer parents tell me straight to my face that. But i think it's more of i have to be prideful because history has shown that everyone hates us type deal.
Any one under 40 seems to be just torn apart about it. Any one under 30 is leaning hard Israel is a genocide state.
As a former Catholic i was never under the impression that the Vatican and going to mass made my ethnicity. So it was easy for me to discard and if i do believe in God i know that God would agree with my feeling of disgust at the church.
But to be Jewish, especially American Jewish, seems to be more about the culture and ethnicity than about the religion at all. It's about being Jewish and for 50+years now to be Jewish is to be Israeli and to Believe that the jews must have a home land. Their is really no religious basis. So to discard Israel is to discard being Jewish. All my Jewish friends seem to have had their little bubble poped. And many wish to just create a new one instead of dealing with reality. Especially the older they are.
The idf has 19 year old admirals.
There's is no leadership. All they can do is drop bombs and shoot civilians