is not doing anything to address their immediate needs when their own needs aren’t even met is a lost cause.

But asking them to support a community effort for something that ignores, invalidates, or terminates their needs being met is just cruel.
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Everyone’s needs are different and unique, and in accordance with Maslow’s Hiarchey of needs individual needs must be met before community needs can be addressed. So asking someone to support a community effort to for a cause that…
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reconcile the genocide the founders of Israel commented to create the nation, or reconcile the genocide it has continued to commit since its founding.

Then at an individual level when try to garner support for Israel it’s focus is on what the country does for the community not the individual.
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To love the L-rd your G-d, to listen to Their voice, and to cleave to Them. For that is your life and the length of your days, to dwell on the land which the L-rd swore to your forefathers to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob to give to them."
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This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses [that I have warned] you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. You shall choose life, so that you and your offspring will live;

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I declare to you this day, that you will surely perish, and that you will not live long days on the land, to which you are crossing the Jordan, to come and take possession thereof.

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But if your heart deviates and you do not listen, and you will be drawn astray, and you will prostrate yourself to other deities and serve them,
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Their ordinances, so that you will live and increase, and the L-rd, your G-d, will bless you in the land to which you are coming to take possession of it.
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Deuteronomy 30:15-20 - “Behold, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil, inasmuch as I command you this day to love the L-rd, your G-d, to walk in Their ways, and to observe Their commandments, Their statutes, and…
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Deuteronomy 26:11 - "Rejoice together with the Levite and the stranger in your midst, all the bounty that the Eternal your God has bestowed upon you."

Oh, and my personal favorite, as it was a key concept of my torah portion at my Bar Mitzvah.
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Leviticus 19:33-34 - "The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself."
Deuteronomy 10:18-19 - "For the Eternal your God is God supreme... who loves the stranger, providing food and clothing — you too must love the stranger."
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7. And not once but at least 4 times we are commanded to welcome the stranger!
Exodus 22:20 - "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."
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6. "You shall not go around as a gossipmonger amidst your people. You shall not stand by [the shedding of] your fellow's blood. I am the Lord." - Leviticus 19:16
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5. Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s house, nor his wife, his man-servant, his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.
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1. Israel is NOT G-d, and should not be worshipped in any way as such.
2. Thou Shall Not Murder.
3. Thou Shalt Not Steal
4. Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness
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1. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor any manner of likeness of anything that is in heaven above, that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them.
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