Israel's Ashkenazi Jews ignore world opinion at our peril. Imo, they're setting up conditions that will restore another backlash against all Jews worldwide.

Josh Reubner tried to warn them.

To My Former Dean and Other "Court Jews"

http://www.counterpunch.org/ruebner03142003.html

I'm observing:

When you have protesters in Florida, in the late great U.S.A  (a few days ago) shouting at Jews "go back into the ovens"

Florida has a one of the highest number of KKK members so I wouldn't worry about a few knuckleheads.
I do worry that some agent provocateurs are trying to create a problem so they can use the newly trained American soldiers on us.

http://www.wacholland.org/node/88

When a close co-worker of seventeen years, knowing fully well my Jewish ancestry, told me last night over dinner "I can't hold back any longer.. seeing what is happening in the Gaza... I really don't like Jews"

What did you say?!? Perhaps you can have that person read The Thirteen Tribe by Arthur Koestler to get our line off the hook. Ashkenazi Jews are thought to be Khazars who converted.

There are Sephardi Jews on my mothers side of the family and for that reason I never viewed Jews as Caucasian. Some Ashkenazi Jews that I met in later years were offended.

As always, it wasn't because we Jews were scapegoated. Actions bring consequences. CONSEQUENCES are a time honored thing.

I do believe that Jews have always been scapegoated because of the actions of a few.
We have to make sure to point out who those few are so the rage is directed right to them.

I just hate that more and more Zionists are being turned into "the Jews". I just replied to a comment on Juan Cole's blog that referred to what "the Jews" have been doing to "The Muslims" for years. I am appalled that some people are trying to turn this into a Jews vs Muslims thing (it is bad enough when it is portrayed as "Jews vs Arabs"). For one thing, it falsely inculpates each and every individual Jew as well as the Jewish people collectively, for another by characterizing the victims as "the Muslims" it denies recognition to Israel's millions of Christian and other non-Muslim victims.

I have been aware for a very long time, of course, of the divide between Ashkenazi and Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews, and the racism still shown by Ashkenazi Jews toward the Sephardim/Mizrahim in Israel, though it was my impression that it has eased considerably over the decades. The treatment of the Arab Jews, many of whom were brought to Israel on false pretenses, and often induced to emigrate by very cruel means, was shameful to say the least. Many of the Jews brought in from Arab countries were among the elite in their native lands, and yet they were treated little better than the Palestinians were.

But to be accurate, idredit, it is not only Israel's Ashkenazi Israeli Jews who are guilty of atrocities, and war crimes.  There are plenty of Sephardim/Muzrahim in Israel who enthusiastically take part at all levels from the government on down. Likewise, there are many Ashkenazi Jews in Israel and elsewhere who do not accept what Israel does in their name, some of whom have devoted their lives to opposing Israel in various ways, and some of whom do not accept Israel's right to exist as an ethnocratic Jewish state. So, I do not see culpability for Israel's actions as falling on "the Jews" at all, or solely on Israel's Ashkenazi Jews. Nor does it fall only on Jews or only on Israelis, but on everyone who supports Israel, acts as an apologist for Israel, or ignores Israel's horrific conduct.