A positive is that Gen Z are looking for footage directly from Gaza as part of informing themselves. They are not relying on what mainstream news is reporting no matter where they live because they know it gets filtered and edited and interpreted. It does give me hope because as the article states, it took months or years, sometimes years after a war had ended before people realised there had been hypocrisy and double standards.
Sadly, I don't think this contrast really holds. A million people demonstrated in London at the time of the invasion of Iraq. It was known and documented at the time, including in the 'mainstream media' that the justifications for it were spurious. The only thing that wasn't known was just how devastating it would be for the region and for the international 'rules based' order.
Gaza is more brutal, more bloody than former conflicts, and playing out at a dizzyingly higher speed, in terms of the rapidity with which the death toll shot up. But in other respects it is more of the same international bankrupcy with which we have become familiar since Iraq, and I don't think Gen Z has any startlingly more constructive reaction to it, let alone a superior information channel to inform them of what is happening. The contrary. What I see on social media is the sickeningly familiar spectacle of issues becoming hyper-polemicised, tribalised, discussed with less and less analytical power, as if the whole point was picking a team rather than trying to work out how this running sore of a conflict should be resolved.