Jews.
The more institutions participate in this collective madness, the more madness there will be. The more elected officials and NGOs misrepresent the predictable consequences of asymmetric warfare in densely populated territories, where much of the infrastructure of everyday life has a dual civilian/terrorist purpose, the more the citizenries of North America and Europe will come to regard Israelis and Jews as a people who lust unquenchably after blood.
The more journalists obsessively pump newspapers, TV bulletins and social media feeds with accounts of one conflict, and one conflict alone, and profoundly dishonest and distorted accounts at that, the more readers and viewers will carry the impression that the heartbreaking suffering in Gaza is unique or even uncommon in contemporary conflict….
For years now, and especially after the October 7 massacre, the call has gone up from the pro-Palestinian movement to put Palestine at the heart of western politics. To pursue the struggle against Zionism in every country, on every platform and in every setting. To wage worldwide resistance to Israel, not only in Wadi al-Far’a but in Washington DC. ‘Globalise the intifada,’ they chanted. This is what it looks like.
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