Axios:
Mapped: Nearly 60% of Gaza damaged or destroyed in one year of war
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/05/gaza-destruction-map-israel-hamas
With regards to that Howard Jacobson article… are we supposed to ignore the actual existence of dead Palestinian children? Really? Just talking about actual facts now is antisemitic? WTAF bullshit is that… Of course, we can both talk about the horrors being perpetrated by the Israel STATE (not the Jewish people, but a STATE, and frankly, he’s conflating the two here, which is yet another fucking antisemitic trope) and not promote antisemitism. Are there people invoking the Blood libel myth… yes (on the right, the same people cheering about dead Palestinian children, BTW). That doesn’t mean that we ignore fucking genocide… which is what is happening right now in Gaza… Ugh…
He’s setting up a strawman argument that all children killed by Israel are deliberately targeted and not killed in indiscriminate bombing.
Ask how Israel is able to target innocent children with such deadly accuracy and no one can tell you. Ask why they would want to target innocent children and make themselves despised among the nations of the Earth and no one can tell you that either.
Indeed that’s the case. But he’s clearly also trying to argue that ANY criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitism. It’s always been bullshit in service of Israeli colonialism.
Yes. Yes we are.
You are supposed to ignore what is actually happening in front of you because of rhetoric.
I got news for that guy…
I’m so tired of living in a world where everything has to be boiled down to these easy to comprehend narratives that miss what’s actually happening. it’s endlessly frustrating…
This has always been the defense of the country: that because people have been horrible to Jews throughout history, we have to overlook Israel’s war crimes now. It’s such transparently cynical nonsense, bullies sobbing about what a hard time their families had while they kick those beneath them.
