Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Report: 12 UNRWA-linked Facebook Accounts Incite Antisemitism & Violence [View all]oberliner
(58,724 posts)With all the due respect, please consider this.
Imagine a website that is exclusively devoted to publishing negative stories about Palestinians. The people who run the site believe they are doing so in the name of exposing the underreported truth about important elements of the Palestinian leadership and people. They scour the press for stories that highlight such behavior and post them on the site. Articles that shows how bankrupt that society is or how devoted to violence they are or how the society has an undertone of anti-semitism or how the leadership is corrupt or how their leadership has outsized importance on the world stage or how their society is sexist or homophobic. All the worst things they can find - and they expound on those articles to highlight how they illustrate their point about Palestinian society.
Every incident of Palestinian violence in particular is published with photos, interviews with the Israeli victims of the violence. And often these stories tie the behavior to the religion of most of these Palestinians. Articles from prominent Palestinians where they talk about justifying violence via religious texts. Track down every remark that any Palestinian legislator said that presents Israelis negatively and seem to justify violence against them. Draw attention to them wherever they might be posted and explain how they reflect the sickness, prejudice, hatred with that society. Then direct criticism towards Muslim-Americans who express support for the Palestinian cause - implying that they may even be more loyal to supporting said cause than they are to the United States.
When questioned about their obvious bias, the people who run the site can present a very reasonable argument about how they support peace and justice, only report on stories with factual evidence, and are doing so to support those Palestinians who are in the minority but who do not support these awful policies and attitudes. And that people who attack the site are just trying to silence them to prevent this important information from getting out there.
Is there really any doubt that you were consider this to be a hate site and one that ought not to be posted here?