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I don't know why you are being downvoted because your analysis is on point. Yes it is racism, mainly on the US part, but religion on Israel part.
However, we should note that Israel treats semitic jews as sub-jews. So it's still racism, at its core.
It's still people thinking that they're better than other people. Because of their skin, their heritage, their religion - that does not really matter. This all counts as racism. She's absolutely right, yet again.
Racism is kind of like the basis for all of this horrible stuff, but at somepoint it goes past it. What I'm trying to say is that even if tomorrow racism stopped, Palestinians would still be ubder attack by Israel because Israel would still blame tgem for 7.10 and would still have the excuse of taking down Hamas. So even if they weren't racist they would still support the war. It might make things better to a degree, reduce war crimes and stuff. But the Israeli government would still want to conquer Gaza because of religion (which is not racism but still fucked up) and the US would still support Israel because of power over the middle-east.
I didn't say she was wrong, but to say that racism is the only problem is naive.