John F. Morton

"What made Nazis Nazis was gas chambers." - Ezra Klein Liberal Zionists desperately want to distance themselves from the *definitionally* ethnosupremacist ideology that Israel requires to exist in its current state. Ezra wants it so badly that he's willing to flout the learnings of the Holocaust, ignore the dehumanization and propaganda that precipitated it, and deny how its vestiges persist today—boiling it all down to "gas chambers." All this because recognizing those similarities would forfeit the moral superiority liberal Zionists claim to have over the Ben-Gvirs of the world. I can't tell if I'm witnessing a genuine emotional block— one that prevents him from recognizing that Israel's violence and apartheid is fundamental to its existence—or if this represents something more sinister from Ezra. Not sure if I'm wiling to give him the benefit of the doubt three years into this horrific genocide.