Anti Israel Rhetoric is rife. Why?

[cindyhove]

As of April 5, 2025, numerous armed conflicts are ongoing worldwide, varying in scale and intensity. According to the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, over 110 armed conflicts are currently being monitored, encompassing both international and non-international engagements.
why is israel the only one to be demonised out of the current 110 conflicts?
The answer is blindingly obvious

Hopefully the image uploads this time 😲

Lol some more honest reporting propaganda

Here's something a little less biased and more accurate

https://news.sky.com/story/hundreds-of-names-removed-from-official-gaza-death-list-13341928

Gabriel Epstein, a research assistant at US thinktank The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said there's no reason to think the errors are the result of deliberate manipulation intended to inflate the share of women and children among the dead.
"If 90% of the removed entries were men aged 18-40, that would look like manipulation," he said. "But it doesn’t look like that."

This is an example of how pointless it feels to engage on this topic sometimes.

You shared a link and said it supported a fact claimed by a PP. I commented on it clarifying the meaning of the statistics you mentioned as you described them in a way that isn’t consistent with what the article (that you shared) says.

You respond saying you’re happy to assume the statistics are a lie. You say you’re happy to assume they are guilty until proven innocent. I believe that if someone said the same about IDF soldiers (that they are guilty of contributing to war crimes / murder of innocent civilians etc until proven innocent) you would find that disgraceful. Rightly so.

Your prerogative of course but it means it’s just completely futile engaging on this topic and further increases the feeling of hostility.

Hamas are mind blowingly, sickeningly cruel. They make me feel sick. I feel the same about the actions of the Israeli government in this conflict.

People are allowed to believe both ‘sides’ are behaving cruelly, appallingly and disgustingly. People criticising Israel’s actions on this thread have been repeatedly accused of being Hamas supporters. Many of us hate Hamas AND the hate the actions of the Israeli government (I am careful not to say Israel because I do not want to assign moral blame to civilians, rather to the people in power).

Yes, you are right, it is incorrect.

Do NOT pull that one!
“People like you who…’

This is the sort of shit that shuts down conversation, which is of course what you want. It’s a disgrace.

I can't quite fathom why you started this thread OP, when you really aren't willing to engage in any discourse openly that doesn't suit your preconceived notions on the topic.

…. now we’re back to the restriction of journalists and other organisations into Gaza.

Hamas lies…. Of course they do, they’re as given to propaganda as any other ruling group. Including Israel.

Considering how much Israel lies and keeps getting caught out and continues to lie...

Is this not about personal views? I’m not allowed then but you are?
I’m far too busy to quite hundreds of instances

Well I say “win” but I’m not sure making Gaza unliveable, killing tens of thousands of civilians and giving up on the hostages is really winning. And I’m not sure that long term it will be a good thing for Israel either.

I guess I mean that Israel is getting what it wants, maximum destruction and control of Gaza. So what does it matter that you have a few annoying voices harping on about peace and human rights.

and Netanyahu said returning the hostages wouldn’t end the war.

Indeed it has. Since the 1 st day of the state of israel. Who started those wars? Not Israel!

Not true at all

Yes, they did. Honestly you really should do more research on this topic that you clearly feel so passionate about.

No it wasn’t. There was no war (this time) before October 7

Also not true. Israel is still having rockets (albeit far fewer now) thrown at them.

At last a thought out response. However, per capita the deaths in Gaza are actually much lower than in the majority of conflicts.
when the population is 2.5 million there will be many deaths sadly

Well it is a war…

I’m reading as many of the responses as I can. Sadly the Israel Gaza situation is totally polarising it seems. It’s not that I don’t feel for the innocent victims on either side but the media coverage (and MN) is certainly biased against israel. Just look at the vote to see!

the sky is blue? People voting for the sky being blue is not what makes it true

I wish that were true. Do you know that the first anti israel march in the UK was requested on OCTOBER 7th?? (And yes that’s public information). So that being the case it had and had nothing to do with what israel is currently doing. It started in the same day that hammas massacred innocent people.

I don’t THINK that will happen. Do I know? No. Just my opinion which according to many posters on here I am not allowed to have.

Cindyhove, you can't just say 'not true at all'. You need to be able to justify what you are saying. Prove that there wasn't a blockade and that Palestinians could live normal lives, could leave Gaza easily, that Israel didn't bomb the airport in 2006 making it unusable, that Gazans could go fishing without restriction, that boats taking them supplies didn't get attacked by the Israeli navy / coastguard. That they could get treated for cancer with radiotherapy in Gaza, and as they couldn't, parents could easily accompany their children to get treated in Israeli hospitals, etc etc.

Did you get this information from a Visit Israel brochure?

Yes, extremely democratic. Unless you're one of the hundreds of thousands Palestinians or Jewish citizens living in East Jerusalem, or one of the 5.1 people living in the occupied territories that don't get a vote over the government that controls their lives. Or one of 6 million Palestinians who have been forcibly removed from Palestine and who exist as stateless refugees with no rights within their homeland whatsoever.

It looks a lot like what South Africa did to the blacks, shifting them into enclaves giving them their own parliament but denying them any real democratic control over their lives.

Yes, so extremely democratic & liberal it doesn't separate religion and government or the executive and the legislative branch. It doesn't even have a truly Independent Supreme Court.

Yes, Israel has a free press, while also arresting over 300 journalists over the past ten years and ranking alongside China and Mynamar as the biggest jailers of journalists in the world. 2024 was the deadliest year for journalists recorded, 70% of those deaths were from the Israeli's.

As for your last point, I think you've misunderstood. Panorama reported on British war crimes on British TV. I can't imagine Uvda airing evidence of IDF war crimes on Israeli TV.

Now, on to your vile and bullshit claim about anti-zionism and conspiracy theories. Not a single thing I've posted has been anti-zionist, or conspiracy based and certainly not antisemitic.