
It wasn’t a fully dead language. It was commonly used in Jewish literature, and for cross-communication between Jewish communities who spoke different languages. Its revival as a literary spoken language was based on its widespread use in Torah study. And the man who revived Hebrew died 20 years before Israel was founded.
I don’t think we need to accommodate people who see the existence of the Hebrew script as a problem. Not only does that line of thinking deny that Hebrew-speakers can be against the genocide, what is the logical result. If the apartheid and genocide ends, are the millions of Hebrew speakers supposed to…stop?