Zionists to Young TikTok Users: Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes
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Robert Rosenthal: Zionists to Young TikTok Users: Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes
'Once upon a time, Zionists had a virtual monopoly on Palestine-Israel news. They painted Palestinians as bloodthirsty, irrational Jew-haters, supposedly plotting a second Holocaust rather than as human beings struggling against a colonial project that has slaughtered them in staggering numbers, stolen their land, and deprived them of their freedom. It was ugly, racist nonsense, pushed by people obsessed with preserving a supremacist system that privileges Jews and treats Palestinians in ways human rights organizations recognize as crimes against humanity.
Unbiased readers started expanding their horizons through outlets like Al Jazeera, The Electronic Intifada, Jewish Currents, Middle East Eye, Mondoweiss, The Intercept, and +972 Magazine, all of which have documented Israeli oppression in detail. For the first time, people with open minds encountered anti-Zionist Jews like Max Blumenthal, Norman Finkelstein, Gideon Levy, Ilan Pappé, and Miko Peled, whose work punctures the “only democracy in the Middle East” fairy tale. Activists found groups like American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which organize for Palestinian liberation.
Now, two years into Israel’s sickening assault on the children, women, and men of Gaza, with polls showing support for Israel collapsing among young Americans – including young Jews – the pro-Israel elite has identified the true villain: not the Israelis dropping bombs on Gaza’s children, but TikTok.
We can see the strategy:
•Ban or punish campus chapters of groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine, which are among the loudest voices for Palestinian freedom.
•Pressure universities, publishers, and platforms so even the word intifada – which literally means “shaking off” – is treated as hate speech instead of a call for liberation.
•Rail against TikTok and other apps that show unfiltered images from Gaza – and, when possible, move those platforms under the control of people deeply invested in Israel’s image.
Maybe they think they can play Whack‑a‑Mole with reality itself, shutting down one outlet after another until young people go back to the days of three networks and one narrative. They’re wrong.'
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