Sometimes I think itโs astonishing how aggressively Israelโs supporters work to stomp out criticism of Israel. Then I remember that these people also support mass murdering children; trying to take away my speech rights is one of their LESS evil goals. It shouldnโt shock me.
I saw someone talking online about how crazy it is that music groups who speak out against Israelโs atrocities are starting to form alliances with each other in an effort to counteract the campaign to silence them and destroy their careers, saying it shouldnโt be necessary to form an alliance in order to oppose an ongoing genocide. And thatโs true, it shouldnโt be necessary. But it also shouldnโt surprise us that people who think bombing hospitals is fine would try to cancel musicians for criticizing Israel.
One mistake westerners keep making is thinking of Israelโs supporters as normal people with normal moral standards just because we happen to know them and interact with them in our communities. They look like us, speak like us, dress like us and act like us, so we assume they must think and feel a lot like us as well.
But they donโt. If youโre still supporting Israel in the year 2025, thereโs something seriously wrong with you as a person. You do not have a normal, healthy sense of empathy and morality.
Itโs 2025. Israeli soldiers are telling the Israeli press that theyโre being ordered to massacre starving civilians trying to obtain food from aid centers. Countless doctors have been telling the world that Israeli snipers are routinely, deliberately shooting children in the head and chest throughout the Gaza Strip. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and all the leading genocide experts and human rights authorities are saying that a genocide is being perpetrated in Gaza. The New York fucking Times just published an op-ed by a Zionist genocide scholar whoโs finally admitting that itโs a genocide.
Thereโs no way to deny what this is anymore. If you still support Israel in the year 2025, itโs not because you donโt believe Israel is committing horrific atrocities. Itโs because you believe those horrific atrocities are good, and you want to see more of them.
Most Israel supporters will deny that this is the case, because they lie. They lie constantly. They have no moral problem with lying. They have no moral problem with burning children alive, so of course they have no problem with lying.
Thatโs where people go wrong. They assume Israel supporters canโt possibly be lying about their concerns about โantisemitismโ in order to promote the information interests of Israel, because nobody could be that evil. But Israel supporters think itโs fine to intentionally starve babies by blockading baby formula from entering Gaza. Of course they are that evil.
People assume Israelโs supporters wouldnโt deliberately stage fake antisemitic incidents or artificially inflate antisemitism figures in their own countries so that their governments will implement authoritarian measures to stomp out criticism of Israel in the name of fighting antisemitism, because they assume nobody could be that depraved. But these people think itโs fine for the IDF to systematically assassinate Palestinian journalists to stop them from telling the truth. Of course they are that depraved.
Of course theyโd try to silence our speech. Of course theyโd try to send our kids off to war with Iran. Of course theyโd work to manipulate our government. Of course theyโd pollute the information ecosystem with mountains of lies. They support a live-streamed genocide. Theyโre bad people.
Supporting Israel and its actions is not some political opinion like your position on property taxes or marijuana legalization. Itโs not just some people having a point of view we need to respect and treat as equal to our own view on the matter. Theyโre working to make it possible to conduct an extermination campaign of unfathomable horror. Thatโs as political as a gang rape, and just as worthy of respect.
Thereโs not really anything you can put past Israelโs supporters at this point. They will lie. They will manipulate. They will pretend to believe things they do not believe. They will pretend to feel things they do not feel. And they will do these things to facilitate some of the worst atrocities you can possibly imagine.
This is who Israelโs supporters are. Theyโre showing you who they are every single day.