US Army officer resigns over 'unqualified support' for Israel

tearsintherain@leminal.space to News@lemmy.world – 558 points –
US Army officer resigns in protest over 'unqualified support' for Israel
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He wrote that the justifications for Israel’s war in Gaza became “difficult to defend” and that “whatever the justification you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.” The post received an outpouring of support with hundreds of likes and comments in just a few hours. ...

In his letter, Mann also says that he’s the descendant of European Jews and “was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment.”

“When it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing — my grandfather refused to ever purchase products manufactured in Germany — where the paramount importance of ‘never again’ and the inadequacy of ‘just following orders’ were oft repeated. I’m haunted by the knowledge that I failed those principles,” Mann wrote.

Mann went on to say that he held off sharing the reason for his resignation because he was afraid of violating professional norms and disappointing officers that he respects.

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Obviously a filthy anti-Semite.

Per the legislation just approved by the US Congress' that's exactly what he legally is (well, minus the "filthy" parts: that's only implicit).

PS: I'd like to remind everybody that in Nazi Germany what the Nazis did was legal.

I know it sarcasm, but dude is actually ethnically Jewish and used to brag back in college about his cousins in the IDF. Was VERY surprised to see his name connected with this years later.

It doesnt matter of hes Jewish or not. What matters is hes criticizing Israel, Which makes him a filthy anti-semite in a lot of peoples eyes. And he wouldnt be the first Jewish person labeled anti-smite since Israels recent push for extermination got underway.

The Israel Lobby has done a lot of work to equate criticism with the state of Israel, to Hatred of the jewish people and Antisemitism.