I am seeing Israel supporters dismiss outhand all evidence of genocide, both independently verified statistics and haunting IDF videos, as fake news. Also on the side of those opposing the genocide, I've seen uncritical dismissal of any negative reports of POW mistreatment, of anti-semitic attacks on non-settler random Jews etc. as fake news (an attitude that does not actually help the Palestinian struggle, as it buys into settler logic, that every individual has to pass a moral test to justify not having the population eliminated.)
In this way the process we saw starting in Trump 2016 is now fully mainstreamed. If ppl can deny the genocide in Gaza with this many independent observers, mass recordings etc. there's no amount of evidence that can break thru polarisation. Consider that places like Sudan do not have the same ability to document.
it is now acceptable for the "civilised" side to directly target hospitals, universities, schools etc. on the "terrorist" side as long as they can claim that terrorists are hiding inside (or underneath). I mean we already saw this process with Turkey justifying targeting Kurdish civil society and, more indirectly, with the War on Terror, but this is further escalation in intensity and blatantness.
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