[devtul]

> how the one tiny country in the whole world

This tactic of saying "oh try to find Israel on the map, it's so tiny, oh poor state of Israel" is often pushed by Zionists, also often trying to link anti-zionism with anti-semitism.

I saw a talk with Ruth Wisse, a professor at Harvard University pushing this narrative.

[myfavoritedog]

Because the argument has validity.

If Israel weren't Jewish, nobody would care about it. You can go line by line describing Israel and its so-called "atrocities" and I'll show you countries that are far more appropriately accused of those types of atrocities... yet those other countries never make it into the international news cycle.

I'm not Jewish. I'm not religious.

But the singling out of Israel by political/antisemitic forces has not escaped my notice.

[Macha]

China vs the Uighurs and Tibetans? India vs Pakistanis? Pakistan vs Indians? Russia vs Chechnya? Spain vs the Basque people? Canada in the 80s vs native people (we had an article just the other day)? The US vs black people?

Plenty of countries get criticised for their treatment of minorities when they do something wrong.

[myfavoritedog]

You're making my point. China is literally wiping out the Uighurs. There's no hair-splitting or propagandizing about it. They're committing actual genocide. But besides a few mentions here and there, the international community is doing nothing about it. If it were at all proportional, the stories and condemnation should be in the news every day.

But instead, we see more media coverage in a single day of Israel's counter attacks from rocket fire than we do for a year of Uighur genocide.

[Macha]

The news gets bored. It's why settlements don't make the news but it makes the news when it rises to armed conflict. Israel has already been pushed out of the news cycle by Belarus here.

There were plenty of news stories about the Uighurs last year.

The international community is not doing much about Israel either.