There’s an enormous media and social media push at the moment to lionize the two Israeli embassy ‘diplomats’ killed. Everything from tearjerking stories about how he’d just proposed to the more prominent and seemingly constructed narrative that he was at this event trying to ‘help’ the situation in Gaza and ‘talk about how to get aid to Palestinians’.
That’s a fucking lie. He was exactly the sort of fucking ghoul you’d expect. And we can tell this in part because they haven’t scrubbed his Twitter or all of his articles yet (although Google results state that a number of results for him have been removed under the EU ‘right to be forgotten’ law, so no doubt it’s underway).
First of all, he was a German-Israeli citizen who volunteered who seems to have volunteered for the IDF.
Secondly, according to people he’d worked with and studied under, he was a Christian Zionist with a rabid love for the Israeli political project in particular.
His views were as you’d expect. A vile, smug, hasbara operative who spent both his personal and professional time spreading genocide apologia, barefaced Israeli lies, conspiracy theories about the UN, attacked & vilified aid organisations before & after Israel killed their workers, and rejected international law when the ICC & ICJ didn’t tow the line.
Right up to the final hours before he was killed, he was retweeting statements denying starvation Gaza and calling it ‘blood libel’.
Was he fuck working on aid solutions. He was an ideological Zionist fascist and a genocidal freak who had fun helping to perpetuate it. He should be remembered as such.
While I’m aware blood libel is a thing, I’m really tired of hearing it out of the mouths of people who simultaneously express the belief that their religion grants them the right to do a genocide. It’s coming across more and more as “How dare you accuse us of the religiously motivated consumption of children, we’re only in favor of the religiously motivated starvation and bombing of children.”
The Zionists do not have a monopoly on the term “blood libel.” Joe Biden claiming he saw pictures of “40 beheaded babies” on live television is the greatest example of blood libel in the 21st century.
Zionists don’t, but it is commonly understood to refer to persecution of Jews by Christians who distorted their beliefs into Satanic ritual cannibalism. Which is why Zionist Christians doubly need to start shutting the fuck up before they start screaming about it.
But they won’t because they’re awful and mangling language and meaning is part of their propaganda objective.