We turn to Kamala Harris’s position on Israel’s war on Gaza, which many are calling a genocide. After she was asked about calls to condition U.S. arms shipments to Israel by CNN reporter Dana Bash, Harris refused to consider halting the flow of weapons and instead affirmed her support of Israel. This position violates both federal and international law, argues Palestinian American political analyst Yousef Munayyer, and, coupled with her campaign’s denial of a requested Palestinian American speaking spot from “uncommitted” voters at the DNC, he warns that “Harris could be worse than Biden” when it comes to U.S. support for Israel.
Women and children are generally given as examples because they’re widely perceived as unambiguously not combatants compared to men by most people.
Nobody’s saying "fuck the men that didn’t want to die". If someone says "how many women and girls were simply living their lives when they were sexually assaulted" and your immediate and only response is "so what, no one cares about men and boys who were sexually assaulted?", can you see why that’s kind of a nonsensical conclusion to make?
Women and children are generally given as examples because they’re widely perceived as unambiguously not combatants compared to men by most people.
Nobody’s saying "fuck the men that didn’t want to die". If someone says "how many women and girls were simply living their lives when they were sexually assaulted" and your immediate and only response is "so what, no one cares about men and boys who were sexually assaulted?", can you see why that’s kind of a nonsensical conclusion to make?
Exactly. Pretty obvious because it leaves no low-hanging fruit for an Israeli apologist to say something like, “those men were probably Hamas.”
It just makes for a more tight and rhetorically effective argument.