Caitlin
Johnstone
Two
staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC have been shot and killed
by a man who shouted “Free Palestine” and reportedly told police “I did it for
Palestine, I did it for Gaza” after his arrest.
The
entire western political/media class is ferociously decrying this as an
antisemitic attack, despite the shooter’s clear and unambiguous motives against
the state of Israel rather than the Jewish faith, and despite one of the two
victims being a Christian from Germany.
So
let’s get one thing clear from the beginning: two Israeli embassy staffers
getting shot in Washington DC is less newsworthy than tens of thousands of
Palestinians being killed in Israel’s genocidal land grab. It is less
important. It deserves less attention. It is not the main story. Israel’s
genocide in Gaza is the main story.
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Many
are suggesting that this was some kind of false flag attack to change the
narrative and rescue Israel’s image on the world stage as public sentiments
turn against its genocidal atrocities. I see no evidence for this at this time.
I’ve been predicting that Israel’s atrocities in Gaza will give rise to violent
extremist attacks, because that’s just what happens when you do profoundly evil
things in full view of the entire world. There may be nothing more to it than
that.
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You
simply cannot give Israel sympathy. For anything. Ever. No matter what happens.
Israel weaponizes sympathy; it uses any sympathy it’s given as a weapon to
justify murdering people. If someone uses something as a weapon to murder
people, it’s immoral to keep handing them weapons. You must disarm them.
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The
real story here is how the entire Western political/media class has expressed
more outrage and sympathy over the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers than
tens of thousands of Palestinians in history’s first live-streamed genocide.
The coverage of the story is the story, because it exposes how little regard
the Western Empire has for the lives of non-westerners. Palestinians are not
regarded as fully human, so their deaths by daily genocidal massacres are
considered less worthy of attention than a double homicide in Washington DC.
Western
institutions regard Muslims and Arabs and people with darker skin as subhuman
vermin whose extermination should be met with an emotional response ranging
somewhere between indifference to glee. Our civilization views itself as
morally superior to Nazi Germany while continuing basically the same atrocities
under basically the same ideology.
That’s
the real story here. That’s the real lesson.
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So
let’s recap in case anyone’s confused:
Nothing
Israel did to Gaza justified October 7, but also October 7 justifies everything
Israel has been doing in Gaza, but also nothing Israel has been doing in Gaza
since October 7 justifies any violence toward Israel.
Everyone
got that? Does that sound about right?
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CNN’s
Dana Bash is already suggesting that “Free Palestine” is a call for violence
against Jews, and ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt is citing the embassy staff
shooting as evidence of the need to deplatform pro-Palestine voices.
This
comes as British police level terrorism charges against a member of the Irish hip-hop
trio Kneecap for waving a Hezbollah flag at a concert.
I
have said it before and I will say it again: Zionism is the single greatest
threat to free speech in our society today. The West’s support for Israel is
causing a nonstop aggressive assault on our civil rights throughout the entire Western
world. This is personal. Israel directly threatens us all.
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