Folks, you don’t have to like Israel and you definitely don’t have to like this war. But you should know, even in your anger, that the NGOs dealing with Gaza and the UN reports based on their data have been routinely and demonstrably lying to you for eight months now. About the death toll, the famine, the aid, Hamas’s behavior and culpability. Gazans are still suffering, the war is still terrible. This doesn’t fundamentally change that. But it’s still important that you’re being lied to so consistently. It’s the new normal, and not just on Gaza: a political narrative takes hold that invents facts and threatens social costs for disbelief. Again, rational people dealing with actual real facts can very much argue against this war. I’m not telling anyone to stop. I’m only noting the plain fact that most of the “data” cited out there in the wild, even when it is accepted as gospel by The New York Times et al - the 35,000 dead, for example - is a lie. https://bird.makeup/@aizenberg55/1798353779940622495
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