Progressives denying Israeli/US genocide in Gaza say the darnedest things

 Progressives denying Israeli/US genocide in Gaza say the darnedest things

Some fellow progressives take issue with me when I call out the Biden/Harris administration for enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza. Their comments astonish me.

“How dare you criticize Biden and Harris for something they have nothing to do with.”

“President Biden is not the Prime Minister of Israel so why are you holding him accountable?”

“You’re doing nothing but helping reelect Trump”

“Do you ever get tired of using the ‘genocide’ word?”

“If you think Biden is helping Israel, Trump will be much worse if he is reelected.”

“President Biden has been a great, compassionate president. Focus on that.”

“Hamas started the war so all death and destruction in Gaza is their fault.”

“Genocide in Gaza is what Hamas did on the October 7th attack. Everything Israel is doing is simply self defense.”

“There are massive civilian casualties in every war. Look at all the civilians America killed in the Dresden Germany firebombing during WWII. What’s happening in Gaza is just like that.”

None of these folks consider that America is enabling Israel commit genocide in Gaza. That is extremely dismaying to those of us in the peace community pushing back against our government’s complicity with that genocide. It does, however, help me understand how 79 years after it ended, some folks still deny the Holocaust.

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