You should learn that the oppressed are rarely as cruel as their oppressors and have less need for a racialized understanding of them - and this reflects the reality of Palestine. The ethnic hatred of Palestinians, dehumanizing them, treating them as a threat with purely hypothetical logic serves an actual function for Israel, who are killing and removing Palestinians from their land. It makes their own citizens accept and even celebrate the genocide, ensuring the project can continue internally. It also builds and externally-facing PR line for Westerners to gobble up, as Western governments are the primary sponsor of this genocide.
It is purely a projection, an attempt to get ahead of the obvious guilt, and that is why Cohen ties the two together. “Massacred Palestinians? Let’s make this about Jewish people and how they’re under threat.”
You should learn that the oppressed are rarely as cruel as their oppressors and have less need for a racialized understanding of them - and this reflects the reality of Palestine. The ethnic hatred of Palestinians, dehumanizing them, treating them as a threat with purely hypothetical logic serves an actual function for Israel, who are killing and removing Palestinians from their land. It makes their own citizens accept and even celebrate the genocide, ensuring the project can continue internally. It also builds and externally-facing PR line for Westerners to gobble up, as Western governments are the primary sponsor of this genocide.
It is purely a projection, an attempt to get ahead of the obvious guilt, and that is why Cohen ties the two together. “Massacred Palestinians? Let’s make this about Jewish people and how they’re under threat.”