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Someone uploaded one of those viral "help identify this racist jerk" clips featuring a man accosting a street vendor with awful Islamophobic vitriol, and it turned out he was the former Deputy Director in the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs for the US State Department.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Elon Musk has announced that common pro-Palestine phrases like "from the river to the sea" and "decolonization" are now banned on Twitter and will result in suspension, falsely claiming that they "necessarily imply genocide".

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel propaganda looks like a music video featuring children singing "we will annihilate everyone" in Gaza.

Palestine propaganda looks like an endless stream of raw video footage featuring children whose bodies have been ripped apart by Israeli military explosives.

Israel propaganda looks like a music video of Israeli women doing yoga on top of images of the Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Palestine propaganda looks like satellite images of entire neighborhoods that have been bombed into rubble by Israeli forces.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Nobody starts out as the sort of person who would support a genocidal bombing campaign that murders children by the thousands. It's something you come into gradually over the years, one moral compromise at a time.

Reading by Tim Foley.

One of the many, many things that sucks about all this is knowing that when there is a violent retaliation for Israel's actions in Gaza which kills Israeli civilians, Israel will look up with Bambi-eyed innocence and say "What did we ever do to them?? We just want to live in peace!"

Reading by Tim Foley.

The most despicable thing about the way Israel supporters smear all Israel critics as anti-semites is that they are exploiting a very healthy impulse to advance a profoundly sick impulse. They knowingly exploit the fact that the further to the left someone is on the the political spectrum the more likely they are to (A) support Palestinian rights and (B) be very receptive to any suggestion that they might be acting in a racially insensitive way.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If Israel's position were based on truth and morality it wouldn't be churning out a nonstop deluge of obvious lies.

No one believes anything Israel says anymore. You either know Israel lies constantly or you know it but pretend you don't.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has been repeatedly refusing to tell the press whether he believes Israel has been following the laws of war in Gaza.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US senator Chris Coons sat across from journalist Aaron Maté on the train on Monday, which is about the worst place you could possibly choose to sit if you're a powerful official in a government that's in the middle of backing an active genocide.

Reading by Tim Foley.

One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel's PR interests.

Reading by Tim Foley.