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That would indeed be an actual solution, but if it actually happens I will eat my unleavened hat.
If you're making a matzah joke, please don't. It's a wonderful food from a wonderful culture that doesn't deserve to be tainted by association with this evil murderous government.
Point taken about the unlikeliness of this, but I would have thought "we are not waiting on the Israelis" to be an impossibility before this, so who knows, maybe their conduct has finally been outrageous enough and public enough this time to change things.
Please don't learn from AIPAC, most people here are highly critical of Netanyahu and the IDF but bear no ill will towards jews - hell - most of the jews I know are highly critical of Isreal themselves. The unleavened hat line reads as a pretty innocuous association joke - it's not antisemitic by nature.
AIPAC has put us in an awful situation by refusing to distinguish between real antisemitism and criticism of Netanyahu - this is a false dichotomy being pushed by a hate group and we need to reject it. Sadly, AIPAC is directly responsible for the resurgence of social acceptance of antisemitism in the modern US.
There is no such thing as an innocuous association with Israel, that's like an innocuous association with the Green River Killer or something. I doubt that commenter had ill intent, but making even very lighthearted or positive jewishness jokes in the context of a story about Israel is just going to lead to irrelevant tangents like this one at best, and it ends up feeding anti-semites and AIPAC ammo at worst.
Isn't unleavened bread eaten by all semitic people? I'm pretty sure unleavened bread is eaten by the whole region, not specific to Jews