Then there were those who justified Israel’s cruelty and expressed unexplored, fixed group identities or false loyalties, regardless of the actual values Israel espouses. They saw everything through their racial/family-based group lens, which trumped the reality of what was happening. Many of these people, some of whom I had known for a long time, expressed racial clichés, cultural Supremacy ideologies, and all of the components of overstating harm in order to justify acting out with cruelty.
