If you are expecting to read my usual Left Coast column, I tell you now that you will be disappointed. I write, today, from a place of horror—about the massacre unleashed against civilians in Israel this past week, and about the morally cretinous bloodlust reaction some who fashion themselves as being on the “left” seem to have experienced in its aftermath, but also in despair at the ghastly collective punishments being unleashed from the air on Gaza residents by Netanyahu’s far-right government and the Israeli military.
Palestinians are being genocided, but the real victims are white Jews thousands of miles away, because they might hypothetically be assaulted by “hoodlums”, which is definitely a real possibility because some random dude is fearmongering about it.
Also I’m sure this hasn’t caused middle easterners and muslims to experience an even bigger uptick in violence against them in western countries. We definitely don’t have a history of that.
Especially now that resistance is basically illegal.