The abuse of antisemitism is nothing new, but we tend to forget that the Israel lobby is only able to get away with its baseless smears because of a deep-seated anti-Palestinianism.

The same settler-colonial project that carried out the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948 is responsible for the killing of 16-year old Qusay Hamamra last week.

Israel wants to whitewash its history to alleviate its responsibility for the Palestinian plight. But this will never work because Palestinians will never forget who they are and where they come from.

Exposing the true face of the occupation is vital in defeating it, and we might be much closer to achieving that than we think.