I’m ignorant, but this is just full of red flags.

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    11 months ago

    Most of what’s on this list are either reactions to the Zionist occupation or outright lies. There’s always going to be the urge, arguably the necessity, to debunk these memes piecemeal, but perhaps consider what they are arguing for and evaluate the underlying assertion. The intent behind these lies is to dehumanize and therefore justify the extermination of the occupied Palestinians. By claiming the Palestinians are no angels, the Zionists can behave like demons. In reality, nothing can make wholesale slaughter and genocide righteous.

    This is a very clumsy attempt at playing the hapless victim and frame their indiscriminate bombing campaigns as reasonable and moral reactions to Hamas terrorism. In reality, the alleged inhumanity and brutality of Hamas and the Palestinian resistance is the expected result of the white supremacist apartheid regime which oppresses them. Settlers will deliberately murder and steal until they provoke violent resistance, then use that violent resistance as both the justification to murder and steal even more and as retroactive justification of their preceding crimes. Do not fall for it.

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      Excellent point. This kind of “gish gallop” of misinformation has become increasingly common lately, because they know it is hard to argue against every single point. All we have to do is call out their behaviour for what it is and not play their games.