Palestinians in Gaza are still digging out from Israel’s last offensive, which the juries in Israel and elsewhere consider to have been a great success. As such, you don’t hear anything in the mainstream American media about the experience of people in Gaza.
Nor do you hear about the onslaught Israel has unleashed inside the West Bank since the Gaza “operation” ended. Why is that? There are a few reasons but the primary one is that there are no projectiles being launched from Gaza into Israel and hence Israelis are enjoying “quiet” and that’s all that matters. In other words, no news from Israel is good news.
The reality, as you can see from the stories above, is much different. As if Israel’s intensive forays into Nablus, a major center of Palestinian politics and culture, aren’t enough, the Zionist state is busy shutting down Palestinian NGO’s under the guise of (you guessed it) terrorism. As I’ve written in this space probably dozens of times over the years, there is literally no type of advocacy for Palestine that Israel can tolerate. And as long as Israel won’t tolerate it, the United States is more than happy to go along, because as I’ve also written in this space in the past, anti-Palestinianism is as American as apple pie.
As sure as the sun rises every morning, it is during the U.S. election cycles when this particular sort of racism rears its head in public. Unlike right-wing MAGA-type racism, anti-Palestinianism also comes wrapped in progressive regalia. All these efforts to protect what is at the core purely a childish enterprise. It is a dark chapter in Jewish history.
Thanks for reading,
Scott Roth
