Harry Spoelstra
I’m not left or right. I just look at the facts and use common sense, as my guide! The “Gaza genocide” charge was a Hamas-fed narrative, never a proven fact. Hamas dressed fighters as “civilians”, “journalists,” “doctors,” and “paramedics” because they knew Western media would treat those deaths as automatic proof of Israeli crimes. They were right. Outlets kept running counts and almost never asked the basic and obvious questions. Now Hamas and PIJ’s own obituaries identify dozens of those same people as their operatives. The response? Silence! You don’t need a political community to see this. When a terror group’s own lists later confirm what Israel said for years, and the same newsrooms that shouted “genocide” issue no corrections, that’s not journalism. That’s following a deliberate narrative. A right-wing Israeli government and anti-Trump energy made the story easier to sell on the left. In Europe, another pressure was added: rapid, poorly controlled/illegal immigration and growing political influence from communities where anti-Israel and antisemitic views are far more common. Parties, campuses, and media learned that challenging Hamas propaganda could mean protests, accusations of racism, and lost votes. So many stopped asking obvious questions and jumped on the "genocide" boat! The claims are now collapsing, and the accountability still hasn’t arrived, but I was right! The facts sadly still don’t matter, demonstrating how attached people are to their preferred fantasy!
Maarten Boudry
I haven't tweeted anything about the Gaza war for a while because I can barely contain my anger at the sheer dishonesty and irresponsibility of it all—it’s just not good for my blood pressure. Every major element of the “Gaza genocide” blood libel has now collapsed, yet there has been zero accountability, zero corrections, and zero apologies. It was all just a gleeful exercise in Holocaust inversion: accusing the Jews of the very crime they suffered eight decades ago. It was bullshit, and many of the people pushing it never believed their own bullshit anyway, as you could tell from their behavior throughout the war: https://substacktools.com/sharex/JIW4HQVx The gravest crime imaginable has been cheapened and weaponized as a tool of political propaganda, fomenting violence against Jews and Israelis around the world. But nobody seems to care—and least of all the Western media. Anyway, I can relate to @Mr_Andrew_Fox’s feelings: “Sometimes I think I am not angry enough, but the scale of the problem is almost too huge to be angry at, collectively. Towering rage must be split into smaller rages at each of the component parts of the blood libel machine. The whole sorry mess sickens me, and now the great indictment of Israel is coming apart, one revelation at a time. This fact is not being reported by a single damned one of the media outlets that have spent years screeching over the war in Gaza to the exclusion of almost all else. Famine, deliberate attacks on hospitals, the slaughter of journalists and children, and systematic obstruction of aid: each allegation was broadcast as settled fact and then used to prove genocidal intent. The same newsrooms and universities that thundered these charges have shown remarkably little interest in the evidence that now destroys each of these allegations. It is incredible. There is no aspect of the genocide allegation that has not collapsed.” /2 https://substacktools.com/sharex/M_6TYSPO