Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>We must face reality — the Gaza War is now a war of annihilation </p><p>Canceling Israel’s critics won’t change the reality of what is unfolding in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheForward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheForward</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Forward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forward</span></a><br>[<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> publication from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>]<br>Jay Michaelson May 28, 2025 </p><p>"The gulf between <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s government and the rest of the world — including its allies, the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration, the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> public, and the American Jewish community — is widening into a chasm. And yet some in Jewish leadership are hiding their heads in the sand.</p><p>Critics of the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a>-<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Smotrich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smotrich</span></a> regime are no longer just campus protesters, or hostile-to-Israel regimes, or antisemites like the murderer of two young Jews at an AJC event in Washington DC last week. They include former prime minister Ehud Olmert..." </p><p><a href="https://forward.com/opinion/723508/why-israel-extremists-must-be-stopped-netanyahu-trump-smotrich/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/opinion/723508/why</span><span class="invisible">-israel-extremists-must-be-stopped-netanyahu-trump-smotrich/</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/PermanentCeasfireNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PermanentCeasfireNow</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/EndBlockadeOfGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndBlockadeOfGaza</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/BDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BDS</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DivestFromIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DivestFromIsrael</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/JewHatredHurtsPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewHatredHurtsPalestine</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WestAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestAsia</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>