To preface, I'm an Asian American 20m college student.
I'm a pretty big history and politics nerd, especially when it comes to the Middle East. It's insane to me how so many of my own peers are brainwashed by the media (the same ones they claim are owned by "the Jews") to think that every Israeli is a genocidal sociopath.
To be clear, historically there absolutely were Jewish Zionist terrorists, but the vast majority of Jews sought only peace with their neighbors. We see that even today, because anytime an Arab nation wants peace (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia), Israel is more than willing to agree.
Do you think Israel WANTS to blockade Gaza and bomb certain spots of infrastructure while the world condemns them? It's a waste of time, money, resources, and reputation. But they need to for survival. Just like any country has ever done in war, Israel does have a lot of civilian casualties because Gaza happens to be the most densely populated area on earth, and yet they have been shown to limit it as much as possible through repeated warnings. But it's the barbaric Hamas that literally forces civilians to stay.
At the end of the day, though, it's kind of terrifying how much this mask of "anti-Zionism" is showing off to platform people who advertise Hitler being cool, or that any person even from Israel shouldn't be allowed to have any sort of platform/public life.
To be clear, Israel is by no means a perfect country. Hell, America isn't either -- we've done some pretty horrific things in our history (from Native Americans to slavery to nuking Japan), but the ideals of what makes this country great are simply far beyond every other superpower, which are dictatorship-run and persecute all kinds of minorities (like Russia and China).
I have no love for Netanyahu or for the far-right in the Knesset. But at the end of the day, most Israelis are, shockingly, normal and everyday people. In fact, most of them have liberal policies (by American standards), which include welfare programs and tolerant social issues (like abortion and LGBTQ rights). Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, the only one fully tolerant to all religions, sexualities, ethnicities, and sexes.
I'm sure I'll get the "Mossad bot" comments, but it's really shocking just how brainwashed some people have become. Everything is wrong with Israel defending its people, but seemingly no attention is paid to the persecution in Sudan, or the forced child marriages in Pakistan, or the killings of tens of thousands of innocent protestors in Iran, or the flagrant violation of women's autonomy in Afghanistan.