Anti Israel Rhetoric is rife. Why?

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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

Honestly the absolute desperation and determination from some to define anyone horrified at the genocide of hundreds and thousands of CIVILIANS, mostly women and children as ‘anti semitic’ or as a ‘Hamas supporter’ is just so plain to see for what it really is.

Some lives clearly matter more than others…

@Comedycook

how do you feel about the ethnic cleansing, starvation and murder of innocent victims no matter where they are? Even the ones in Gaza…

It's both a distraction and a silencing tactic because genocide is indefensible.

Firstly, the comparison with UK or USA fighting a foreign war is a false equivalence. Israel has a neighbour dedicated to a genuine genocide against its people. They want to eradicate all Jews from Israel. The Hamas fighters are on film going through the Kibbutz looking for civilians with the words, ‘where are the Jews? Where are the Jewish dogs’. We can see by their indiscriminate murder of babies, children, women and men, that this was genuine racist hatred.

If your neighbour is committed to your genuine genocide and proves its intent with a mass attack on your civilians, you have to respond and you have to destroy them. Wars are won only when one side is so destroyed it has no choice but to surrender. That’s how wars end. And still Israel warns civilians about areas it will attack.

Hamas are still sending terrorists into Israel to murder civilians. They are open about their plans for another October 7 th. The government of Gaza does not warn Israeli citizens of its attacks. The Israeli government does warn Gazans.

I think many people here are really ignorant about what Hamas are and what their intentions are.

Ultimately, Israel is a democratic country which has been subject to a mass terrorist outrage by a terrorist dictatorship government which its neighbour openly intent on its genocidal destruction.

Jews were ethnically cleansed from the ME/North Africa....do you know how many Jews are left in Yemen? Go on take a guess?

Then tell me why the sheep in the UK aren't up in arms about it?

Are you genuinely saying you thought WW2 could have been fought without killing enemy civilians?

Is that seriously what you have to resort to, to be able to keep being justified in attacking Israel?

And the idea that aid hasn't been getting in...this has been going on for nearly 18 months...if Israel weren't letting aid in, there wouldn't be a single person left in Gaza.

Excellent post

This.

I read a comment recently, can't remember where I read it or the exact wording, but it was along the lines of 'you do not win a war by defeating the enemy's soldiers, you win it by winning over their civilians'.

I do feel that is Hamas's strategy. Their propaganda is endemic, and it has seeped into many people's consciousness (especially those who work at the BBC). What has also seeped into many people's consciousness is that "colonial settler white guilt" which some feel is the mark of their progressiveness. I guess they don't see that actually it leads them to 'white saviour' complex, but hey-ho ...

Oh well shit happens if you go into a war zone.

I hate this stuff that medics and journalists of they die it's worse than a normal person dieing.

Yes. This is why.

Aid has been blocked for over a month. Why are you calling it an 'idea' like it isn't a reality?

One month since Israel closed all crossings to Gaza for goods, all UN-supported bakeries have closed, markets are empty of most fresh vegetables and hospitals are rationing painkillers and antibiotics.

Edited because my link wasn't working but obviously it's all over the news. It's pretty disgusting that people are denying this.

Didnt take long for someone to conflate criticism of israel, and by extension the isreali government with criticism of all Jews....

Fwiw I'm fully behind all israelis protesting against their own government. Netanyahu and the people supporting him are evil monsters.

Also, I think it's very important to point out the difference between governments and leaders and the ordinary populations. Just like, in Russia, the thinking people blame and hate Putin and his henchmen, but don't apportion any kind of blame to Anna and Dmitri who are hard-working farmers making a living in their community in Rostov-on-Don.
If some people do start to conflate the governments making highly controversial choices with all of the everyday citizens, that may well indicate a racist and prejudiced mindset.

I've noticed something new recently with people's attitudes to this:

In the past I've often seen peoplecritize about Israel mainly in terms of government policy. In a way this makes sense, because it is a democracy, so while we know not every person in the nation will agree, we do tend to assume a certain broad support for government policy. Plus, they have an educated, in many ways very westernized population, so we see them as similar to ourselves - in fact lots of people in the west have relatives in Israel.

They tend to sympathize with Palestinians as a people, poor and with poor access to education and jobs, under leadership that isn't really a democracy in the way we are used to, even if there have been elections in the past. Rightly or wrongly people didn't associate them closely with Hamas.

And while people have felt they understood why Palestinians were so easily radicalized, I don't think many thought Hamas was a very good organization in its actions, or even ideologically in many cases. Many sympathetic to Palestine saw Hamas as standing in the way.

Lately, I have been seeing a lot of young people who don't make any distinction of that kind. They see Hamas as freedom fighters against white oppressors, and fully justified. They tend to also believe that non-white people can't be racists or bigots, and all oppressed people are on the same side. If the oppressed take any action, it seems, it is justified in the minds of these people. They are staggeringly ignorant really, but it seems to me that it is really new to have so many people in the west thinking that way.

I'm talking about the tiresome rhetoric that no aid has been going in at all during this conflict....the crowds of people at the hostage release looked the picture of health...apart from the actual hostages of course.

Israel may indeed have been under attack since the start, but their territory has consistently increased through every conflict. They are not just defending themselves,

I think most people don’t have a ’side’ in this conflict and are happy to condemn the terrible actions of both. But apparently that’s not good enough to avoid being antisemitic.

Well I see it the other way around.

I see the dogged determination to see Israel’s defense of itself country from a terrorist dictatorship that launched a massacre on its civilians as a ‘genocide’ as a way to seek to silence those mounting any decency of Israel.

’Oh you support genocide do you’
’some lives clearly matter more to you, because you support genocide’

There blatantly is no genocide. Israel is clearly warning civilians of bombing attacks. We literally saw a mass migration of Gazans to Gaza in the ceasefire - all this people lived because of the actions of Israel.

A good deal of the people who died in the war, could have lived if their own government had sheltered them in the very extensive tunnel network they built in preparation for this war that they started. Why not accuse Hamas of genocide then?

Hamas are the ones putting out public statements glorying in their own civilians deaths - why not accuse them of genocide?

Hamas brought ALL of this, knowingly, deliberately, on their own people. They have recently murdered their own citizens who have started protesting against them for all the death they have brought on them.

Blame Hamas. Blame the terrorists. Blame the dictatorship.

Exactly....Hamas absolutely love it when Palestinian civilians die....it's good pr for them. The more the merrier as far as they're concerned.

The same is true of Christians, no one cares much about that either I seems. Christianity is a shadow in the Middle East/North Africa, where it originated.

Agree

Err no, some civilians will always be killed in war but the carpet bombing of cities which had no strategic military advantage was totally unnecessary. We clearly thought so after the war do because we came up the 4th Geneva Convention.

Propaganda has persuaded people to think Hamas are the good guys.

Oh so you aren't talking about the fact that nothing has gone in in over a month? That doesn't worry you, doesnt strike you as wrong or as something we should be talking about?

Have you seen the health of the people who weren't there? The ones with their límbs blown off or their skin burnt off or the cancer patients?

It's all just so tiresome that people keep talking about them isn't it

Yes there are. Three. The Gaza Baptist Church, the Catholic Church of the Holy Family and the Eastern Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius. Not all Gazans are Muslims.