So what is "the Jewish nation"?
Some defenders of Israel's actions in Gaza are employing the tactic of
conflating criticism of those actions with anti-Semitism, e.g.,
asserting that such criticism is motivated by hatred of Jews.
(For example, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/07/oct7-israel-europe-opinion-00597296
from no less than the chair and CEO of the publishing house Axel Springer.)
So let's take a step back and make some relevant and necessary distinctions.
1. The nation-state of Israel.
2. All Jews worldwide: Google
Jewish nation
That ambiguity is what enables the conflation of criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza with anti-Semitism.
In fact a significant number of Jews are highly critical of what Israel is doing to Gaza.
E.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_Benjamin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Weiss
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To complicate the situation further, there are in fact THREE related entities:
1. The Jewish people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews ,
defined by some solely by ancestry.
2. The religion of Judaism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism ,
a religion.
3. The nation Israel, sometimes called "the Jewish nation"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel ,
a nation in the usual sense,
which contains people of varying ethnicities and religions.
For a comparison of the first two entities, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew
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