

Yeah, hyperfocusing on the amount entirely misses the genocidal actions and intent. Even if the numbers weren’t accurate, that wouldn’t change anything (if anything, it’s a huge undercount)
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Yeah, hyperfocusing on the amount entirely misses the genocidal actions and intent. Even if the numbers weren’t accurate, that wouldn’t change anything (if anything, it’s a huge undercount)
If you find some more sources, I’d be interested
IFJ White Paper on Global Journalism which goes into detail about journalists killed from 1990-2020. From that data the amount of journalists killed per year in a conflict is still highest in Gaza, with the Iraq War coming very close in 2006 and 2007.
I can’t find detailed data about Journalists killed in older conflicts, if you find some please share
The Jewish Supremacy inherent to Zionism goes back to race science, similar to White Supremacy. It comes from perceived ethnic superiority, abusing the religion to it’s own ends. Zionism goes against the teachings of Judaism, and Jewish opposition to zionism is as old as Zionism itself. The supremacy over and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in fundamental to zionism, it’s certainly like early America in many ways
Zionism started as a fascist settler colonialist project and had the support of anti-semitic Christian Zionists throughout Europe. They even collaborated with Nazi Germany with the Haavara Agreement. Prominent Jewish people at the time, such as Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt warned of the fascist actions they witnessed of zionism in 1948. Of course the ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian population goes back to the founders of zionism and started around the 1920s even before the Nakba.
Oh you didn’t come off like you were denying it at all, I just wanted to provide more context that I knew about.
As to why, fundamentally it’s due to supremacy and dehumanization. Zionism has dehumanized Palestinians since the start, and it’s been ongoing for generations. They see Palestinians as sub-human savages, and with that mentality it’s easy for them to legitimize all of the inhumane violence we see. This kind of dehumanization happened with the colonization of the Americas too, but since Zionism is only about a hundred of years, give or take, instead of the hundreds back in the 1500s-1700s, we are seeing it take place live with modern technology for the first time. Settler Colonialism needs to go. It has no place.
The Israelism Documentary showed me a lot about how ingrained Israel has made itself in the lives of Jewish Americans as both an identity and a support structure. It’s a lot more insidious than I first thought
Unfortunately, the IDF using Palestinians as Human Shields is a long standing practice. One of the many ways they attack and terrorize Palestinian civilians
IDF uses Human Shields since at least 1967
Including Children (2013 Report)
Palestinian children face unrelenting genocide, displacement, and systematic abuse throughout 2024
Israel “Systematically” Uses Gaza Children as Human Shields, Rights Group Finds 2024
Breaking The Silence - Testimonies from IDF Veterans
The point is cruely and supremacy. Everyone knows torture doesn’t work when it comes to extracting information, even the Nazis knew that much. What they want is to instill fear and terror into every Palestinian, in an attempt to bring the entire population into despair and cripple the resistance. That’s why the IDF routinely kidnaps Palestinians, including children, without any evidence or fair trial, to incarcerate them indefinitely in torture prisons that are more inhumane than we can possibly imagine.
Palestinians are jailed without charge, forced into false confessions, routinely tortured, raped, denied medical attention, and some even killed as a result. This includes hundreds of children.
Palestinians denied civil rights (HRW) including Military Court (B’TSelem)
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel (wiki)
Children are jailed and abused in Israeli prisons (Save The Children)
Torture and Abuse in Interrogations (B’TSelem)
Thousands of Palestinians are held without charge under Israeli detention policy (NPR)
Not to mention the US-Saudi genocide of Yemen that’s still currently ongoing
Harris’ rhetoric of a two-state solution and ceasefire were no different than than Biden’s rhetoric, both were not genuine. Both are on record for opposing the weapons embargo, which was THE way to force Israel is agree to the ceasefire. It was always empty rhetoric, meanwhile the administration continued to fund the genocide with billions of our tax payer dollars.
The rhetoric coming out of the White House, when it has been focused on peace or restraint, rather than continuous war, has been undercut at every turn by its actions. The constant supply of weapons — $17.9 billion of bullets, bombs, shells, and other military aid in the past year — has allowed Israel to keep waging its war on Gaza, and in recent weeks, expand that war to Lebanon and threaten to escalate its conflict with Iran. Despite documentation of U.S. weapons being used in probable war crimes, and credible allegations that Israel is committing genocide in its war on Gaza, the bombs have continued to flow.
Year of Empty Rhetoric From the White House on Israel’s Wars
Here Are 34 Polls That Show A Ceasefire & Weapons Embargo Help Kamala Win
What did I lie about?