Attacking places of worship is wrong. Israel should stop bombing mosques and churches. I wish the attack on the Manchester synagogue had never happened.
Murder is wrong. Israel should stop committing it.
Antisemitism is wrong. Israel should stop fomenting it by massacring children under the banner of the Star of David while claiming to represent all Jews.
Terrorism is wrong. Israel should stop perpetrating it by deliberately targeting civilians with mass scale violence for the purpose of advancing a political objective.
Attacking places of worship is wrong. Israel should stop bombing mosques and churches.
I wish the attack on the Manchester synagogue had never happened. I also feel weird about even talking about it while dozens of Palestinians are killed today whose individual names I'll never know and whose individual deaths I'll never see decried in western media headlines.
Their lives didn't matter any less than the two people who were murdered in the synagogue attack. They're just not white westerners, so their lives aren't treated as significant. Their violent deaths aren't seen as horrific. Their murderers aren't denounced as monsters.
I'm seeing Israel supporters claiming that this attack means everyone needs to stop protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, just like they claimed after two Israeli embassy staffers were killed in Washington back in May. Their demands will be ignored just like last time, because they are ridiculous. Even if a double homicide is directly motivated by opposition to Israel's extermination campaign in Gaza, that is not a valid reason to stop opposing an active genocide. This shouldn't even need to be said.
Last I heard it is unknown whether the synagogue attacker was motivated by Israel's actions in Gaza, but if he was I'd say that's one more reason to oppose Israel's actions in Gaza. If you are too racist or apathetic to oppose a genocide on principle, then you should oppose it because it is fomenting violent extremism which could end up hurting people who look like you and live where you live.
posted by Satish Sharma at
08:05
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