Zohran’s latest statement is disgraceful. It hides behind the language of morality while reinforcing the same frameworks that dehumanize Palestinians.
He begins by calling October 7 a “horrific war crime,” centering Israeli suffering as the starting point of the story. That framing erases the decades of siege, occupation, and systematic killing that led to that day. It makes Palestinian resistance seem like senseless violence rather than a response to unending colonization.
He follows with mourning for Gaza, but only after reaffirming that Palestinian resistance must first be condemned. This is what passes for “balance” in liberal politics: treating a colonized people’s fight for survival as a moral failure while describing their annihilation as a humanitarian tragedy.
By calling for “diplomacy, not war crimes,” Zohran implies that both sides are equally guilty, softening the reality of a one-sided genocide into the language of “conflict.” He refuses to name power, which is the easiest way to protect it.
Invoking “universal human rights” sounds principled, but it empties the struggle of its political meaning. Palestinians are not asking for abstract ideals. They are demanding freedom, return, and liberation from a settler state built on their destruction.
At a time when Gaza is being erased, statements like this do not show courage. They show complicity.
Somebody with more patience than me needs to do up an October 7 effortpost, because I’m so goddamn tired of reading about hAmAs WaRcRiMeS when they didn’t even know there would be a festival there in the first place. It was supposed to end on October 6! It only got extended to the 7th a few days earlier.
Coincidentally, the IOF was aware of the attack weeks in advance. Why’d they rubber stamp the festival extension when they knew what was gonna happen?
Maybe also discuss all the burned out cars. Why’d they get a burial?
All the things that Zionists say about Hamas targeting children or babies are lies. This is based on the full victims list published by Israel.
If anything, these numbers indicate that Hamas avoided killing children. Around 3% of Israelis killed on October 7 were children. Compared to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, around 40% of Palestinians killed by Israel were children.
Also Israel initiated the Hannibal Directive on October 7. This means that Israel intentionally killed their own civilians. Some of the Israeli children may have been killed by Israel.
You used this phrase “israeli civilians”, a term that is contradictory. Settlers cannot be civillians, and all israelis are reservists and must serve a term in the Army.
Also, an unknown percentage of dead Israelis were killed by the IDF
Food for thought why the electoral “left” in the US is a hitlerite everywhere else.
The mythology of Oct. 7th works so well because it’s the same playbook for Sept. 11th, 2001 attacks.
Oh I didn’t know about all that other than the cars
EI did a great summary here
why must it be a Twitter thread
best I can do is https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1975547612943319276.html