@OFlahertySeamus@zalmib 22,000 is incredibly low and a testament to the IDF’s efforts not to harm the civilians Hamas hides behind and refuses to build bomb shelters for
George Orwell, in April 1945, was discussing how otherwise intelligent, seemingly reasonable people could accept demonstrably false accusations about Jews.
He described people who insisted that their hostility toward Jews was based on objective observations rather than prejudice.
He then wrote:
“Yet one of the marks of antisemitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true.”
Orwell followed this with an example involving a deadly crowd crush at a London Underground station in 1942 and the false stories circulated about Jewish responsibility.
@phillippepayant@PoliticalSage@eigenrobot Yeah Starmer refused to support the ban on cousin marriage. They do it anyway, of course, and then the additional "wives" get benefits as single mums