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I Am Not a Queer Justification for Your Genocide
Palestine, Gaza, Politics, & Pride
In Gaza, on top of the bombs leveling everything still standing, the Israeli government has blocked the food and supplies coming into the occupied territory to such a high degree that many residents, especially children, are dying from malnutrition. As a nutrition officer for the aid group MedGlobal, Rana Soboh, told the HuffPost:
We are seeing … children who cannot get even one full meal a day, and mothers forced to split one piece of bread among five kids. People walk for hours just to reach food distribution points, and many go back empty-handed because there simply isn’t enough. We are seeing children with wasted bodies and swollen bellies from malnutrition.
Yet if you point out the very obvious fact that the Israeli government’s genocidal campaign is systematically killing human beings, proponents will tell you that such actions are not really happening, and if they are, they are justified.
They will erroneously tell you that it’s war and such actions are allowed during war. (They are not; that’s why we have war crimes and genocide statutes.) They will racistly argue that all Arabs are monsters and rapists who want to kill Jewish people, as if the Arab community is a hive mind that monolithically thinks the same.
