I'm not about to deny that there has been a lot of complacency about what Israel is doing to Palestine over the years. This is absolutely the case.

What's absurd is the proposition that if you've only just recently developed an understanding of a situation that has been outrageous for the best part of a century now, therefore your position on the matter is illegitimate somehow. It's not your fault that you live in an imperial bubble that's brimming with distractions, PR doublespeak, and curated concerns.

I have often referred to Israel's actions as being a slow-burning genocide or a genocide in slow motion. Obviously that's before the recent events but still. The point being that Israel is very aware that as long as they take a slow and steady approach which is punctuated by relatively brief periods of intensification and speeding up, the world will largely be indifferent because there's always a more urgent concern and that way what they're doing can mostly fly under the radar.

Blaming people for the very self-conscious and strategic approach to ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide enacted by Israel is just blame-shifting that serves the interests of Israel and sides with the oppressor over the oppressed.

Our votescold here wouldn't be singing the same tune if he encountered people who were diehard Republican voters up until 6 months ago when they got slightly more politically savvy. I wonder why that would be?