
Most people arenāt accusing individual Israelis of genocide but instead their government, which has killed tens of thousands of people in Gaza ethnic-cleansing style. If I just said to an Israeli āyouāre a genociderā thatās one dumb thing, but are you actually claiming that there is no genocide in Gaza?
Itās less of a claim and more of a fact to be completely honest with you. Iran and Qatar have been rapidly spreading disinformation for years now, and for whatever reason a handful of Americans blindly believe all of it. Now itās just a bunch of uneducated people calling Jewish people Nazis and itās really sad tbh
Iāve actually helped a lot of people irl understand the truth thatās going on in the Middle East and changed a lot of peopleās opinions. I know itās harder on the internet because people are more stubborn and often just trolls, but I rest easy at night knowing Iām making a difference
Honestly itās very hard to pick 1 reliable source. Every source has some sort of bias, whether it be pro-Israel or pro-Palestine. I tend to try to read several sources from both sides and piece things together on my own to get a holistic view. But I would say the ones to definitely never look at are guardian, Al Jazeera, BBC, anything on social media
You shared three news sources you like but didnāt provide any substantial sources backing up the claim that Israel isnāt committing a genocide. Telling people āwell it canāt be happening because you canāt trust what any of these sources are reportingā convinces nobody and just makes you sound like someone who refuses to acknowledge facts you donāt agree with
Interestingly the author of the opinion piece, Bret Stephens, received backlash in 2016 for saying that antisemitism was "the disease of the Arab mind.ā He also was accused of being a eugenicist when he argued that Ashkenazi Jews are superior because they have a history of āusing alternative thinkingā
I appreciate that youāre taking the time to look in depth about the source and identify their biases. Always do that, everyone has a bias. I just found the first 2 articles that came up because you asked for an article from those sources that disagrees with the idea that Israel is committing genocide.
I asked for sources that prove Israel isnāt committing a genocide. A fluff opinion piece means about as much as your texts do. Iād be debating in bad faith if I didnāt take the time to interact with the sources of the person Iām debating with. I still canāt access the second article :/ whatās the title, author, source and date? Iāll try and find it myself
The next time some event happens and you see the guardian release a headline that says āevil jewish Nazis keep committing genocideā I challenge you to find an article about the same event from the other side. Youāll likely learn more context that the first article didnāt provide
So remind me why Israel has a history of strategically displacing and massacring Arabs in occupied territories and replacing them with Jewish settlers and how thatās not ethnic cleansing? And this isnāt just civilians being displaced by war. Specifically expelling Arabs. The Druze were left in the Golan heights while their Arab neighbors were expelled. Arab villages were massacred in 1948. Many Arabs STILL WITHIN Israel are not allowed to return to their villages.
Like come on, this is the government actively committing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, whose officials have openly claimed all Gazans must be punished for Hamas, and whose soldiers have actually reported they were ordered to shoot at civilians. Are the mass civilian casualties just a coincidence?
Probably the most common circumstance for genocide to occur is during warfare. When rebels are able to hide among a civilian population, a government commonly decides to just eradicate the whole civilian population. The heat of war is also a much easier circumstance to convince soldiers to commit a genocide, more so than during a time of peace. Turkey claims to this day that the Armenian genocide was simply a government relocation to prevent Armenian rebels from genociding Turks.
Germany committed the Nama and Herero genocide (one recognized by Israel) in response to indigenous Namibians massacring 200 German settlers. The Nama and Herero were pushed to the desert and starved. Then all the men were executed as rebels. Then the women and children were placed in concentration camps.