When wasn't it?
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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Yes, it always was, but the fact that staunch Zionists acknowledge it now is another step forward in public opinion, and will make it politically more difficult to attack the Palestinian solidarity movement.
Seems more like he's realized that it's becoming too hard to maintain Israel's image as "the only democracy in the middle east", and is trying recover it by placing all the blame on rogue politicians. Reading the article, he still 100% stands behind his support for the last year of genocide, as well as the slow moving genocide before that. It's only now that the Israeli government is actually admitting it plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza, rather than just doing it but refusing to talk about the end goal, that he has an issue. Basically seems like he's trying to limit the scope of allowable Palestinian support to just condemning the absolute most obvious genocidal acts. He's still calling people anti-semites for opposing Israel's genocide.
...always has been.
zzz calling the shooter an antisemite... read the manifesto you cowards
Back after the initial escalation in 23, I was pretty annoyed how all the news that even mentioned it at all phrased it like the genocide started with that escalation and hadn't been happening for decades prior. But now I see so so much more awareness of the topic, and I kinda changed my mind: headlines like this seem to make people feel less stupid for only realizing now, and thus more inclined to open their eyes to it. Since it worked in 23, itll probably work now, so I'm not really against this headline. Ideally, people will then do some further reading, and eventually find out that the genocide of palestinians has been Israel's agenda since it was founded after WW2.
The article itself is vile though; explicitly stating that it was not a genocide but a justified war of self defense until literally this month.