A quiet concession to reality:
The IDF has accepted the estimate of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry that approximately 71,000 Palestinians were killed during the Israel-Gaza war, noting that the number does not include missing residents who are potentially buried under rubble.
One of the hardest parts of reading Blue MAGA/Biden Ride or Dies “discuss” Gaza was realizing none of them read anything about it.
I was repeatedly and patronizingly assured that Palestinians were inventing numbers and events, by people who didn’t follow this at all. I was told Israel wasn’t bombing hospitals when (of course) Israel was bombing hospitals. I was told Israel wasn’t raping Palestinian detainees when, actually, IN ISRAEL there was months of discussion around IDF soldiers raping Palestinian detainees.
I had one sneering Blue MAGA believer assure me that Gaza was nothing LIKE DRESDEN.
The US and Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza was not “like Dresden”. It was much, much worse than Dresden.
By one estimate, as of April 2024 the bomb tonnage dropped on Gaza was more than 70,000 tonnes,[6] surpassing the combined bomb tonnage dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London in World War II. Satellite imagery showed at least 69% of all buildings were damaged or destroyed, which surpasses the scale of destruction in Cologne and Dresden and approaches that of Hamburg during World War II.An analysis in The Lancet concluded that, as of January 2025, official figures significantly under-report mortality; the analysis estimated 64,260 deaths from traumatic injury up to 30 June 2024, and when extended to October 2024 likely exceeding 70,000.The recorded death toll, per the Gaza Health Ministry and as of October 2025, is over 68,000, not including those missing and presumed dead.Researchers have estimated the percentage of civilians among the fatalities at not less than 80%
Putin has slaughtered about 13k Ukrainian civilians in Ukraine. That’s out of a population of 40 million. Israel and the US slaughtered at least 60k Gazan civilians out of a population of 2 million. It’ll be far, far more than 60k if Israel ever allows independent observers or media back in, unlikely since they have apparently decided that far Right bigot Netanyahu is their Prime Minister For Life.
Condeleeza Rice and Hillary Clinton smearing the pro Palestinian college students as stupid doesn’t change those facts, and it doesn’t change the fact that it is the height of hypocrisy to defend US/Israeli actions regarding Gaza while railing against Putin in Ukraine.
The dirty fucking hippies at the pro Palestinian protests were right on Gaza and the Democratic and Republican political and foreign policy apparatus were wrong and every liberal and Leftist college student sees it, because it is obvious once you put down the rah rah Biden pom poms and read something. We should stop lying to them. They knew then and they know now.
Democrats, including Biden, eagerly went along with the far Right banning and then selling Tik Tok because Democrats didn’t want any news coming out of Gaza that wasn’t owned by Israel or the US, and now they’d like to pretend none if it ever happened. This is the result. All pro Palestinian or content opposing Netanyahu/far Right Israeli government content has been pulled from Tik Tok.
Award-winning Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has said she has been permanently banned from TikTok, days after the social media platform was acquired by new investors in the United States.
Owda, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and contributor to Al Jazeera’s AJ+ from Gaza, shared a video on her Instagram and X accounts on Wednesday, telling her followers that her TikTok account had been banned.
I’m old enough to remember when US Catholics completely lost their shit when Sinead O’Conner wouldn’t shut up about priests raping little boy and girls. How’d that turn out?
In 20 years the Gaza genocide will be as much accepted fact as Catholic priests raping kids for 150 years. The students only crime was being the first to tell the truth about what they were seeing with their own eyes.
