What truly sickens me isn't these monsters, though they purposefully conflate antisemitism with being against a genocide committed by a country and that certainly qualifies them as monsters, rather it is that the rest of society looked at people like this and equated them to "just being the other side" from progressives and leftists when their hate is thinly veiled, so poorly concealed that I can come to no other conclusion that they would rather just come out and say they want to commit a complete genocide of Palestinians... AND THEN THEY DO and the center of my society just takes the money from AIPAC and smiles and waves like they didn't hear those genocidal words from someone with a frightening amount of power that we are enabling.

“So we pointed out, secondly, that this claim was based on entirely unfounded speculation, which also ignored factors that might result in lengthening the lives of Gazans, given the public health situation existing in Gaza prior to the war, including the extent of obesity. These factors include the possible reduction in the availability of confectionery and cigarettes.

“In the context in which they were made, our statements were accurate and objective.”

This is a bread and butter example of how cynical people will exploit fascism for power by stoking bigotry against the pawns they are using to do their bidding. This is basically a booty call for anti-semitism with very very low standards for who answers the booty call disguised as a defense of a country committing a genocide.

The condescenion of these words are an essential part of the genocide and incomprehensible mass murder of innocent people because it makes it that much harder for the families of victims to not react in blind rage and devolve into a raging anti-semitic people who are no longer interested in the FACT that judaism and Israel are two seperate concepts. In other words...the rhetorical arguments of these people suck so they have to try to invoke the most heinous trauma imaginable to distract from it.

These lawyers are begging the narrative here to collapse into simply "jews=bad" because then their political ideology of "palestinians=bad" suddenly becomes potentially ok again in the eyes of a fearful public.

When a billionaire compliments your people by calling them "Masters Of The Universe", get ready to fight for your life against all billionaires because that is very scary anti-semitic rhetoric turned on its head being used to make jews into a target for problems billionaires created, profit from and actively seek to worsen into deeper crisis they can more thoroughly pillage for their own gain.