Israel supporters have different packages of apologia for each ideological group, with different narratives explaining why Israel's abuses are justified to all the different groups in language designed to appeal to each faction.
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Israel supporters have different packages of apologia for each ideological group, with different narratives explaining why Israel's abuses are justified to all the different groups in language designed to appeal to each faction.
Are you a progressive humanitarian? Israel apologists have a narrative package custom designed to appeal to your support for the Jewish people and the revulsion you feel toward their historic persecution.
Are you a conservative who's fearful of Muslims and terrorism? Israel apologists have a completely different package of narratives designed to appeal to your fears and explain why Islamic extremism must be defeated to protect western civilization.
Are you a fundamentalist Christian? There's a whole other package of narratives designed to explain why support for Israel is actually commanded by God in the Holy Bible.
Are you a fascist who thinks Arabs should be wiped off the face of the earth? Boy howdy do the Israel apologists ever have some narratives for you.
The only ones they can't effectively target with carefully constructed narratives are the groups who are already forcefully pro-Palestine, predominantly on the leftmost end of the political spectrum. So they just work on silencing, stigmatizing and marginalizing those groups instead.
It's all about controlling the narrative. Israel apologists understand the power of narrative control better than perhaps any other major ideological faction on earth, and you see it at play throughout every facet of our society. That's one of the many reasons they were so successful at manufacturing support for Israel in the west up until history's first live-streamed genocide caused them to finally start losing control of the story.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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