VT Foreign Policy
Should Americans launch a Hyperconformity Intifada?
I recently had an email argument with Ron Unz about the term genocide. Ron argued that calling what Israel is doing to Palestine by that name is problematic, since the popular definition of genocide involves plotting to kill every single member of the target group. Additionally, Ron posits
…a tactical problem with using the word “genocide.” Your opponents have total control over the media and the political system, and can easily distort statements to damage your case. Thus, all those pro-Palestinian students on college campuses go around shouting “Genocide!” to condemn the Israelis for their slaughter, then pro-Israel activists claim they have been declaring their support for genocide against the Jews of Israel and America, leading to those Congressional hearings that hammered several Ivy League presidents.
My response: “Really?! I must have missed those news stories. I’ve seen the Zionist claims that ‘river to the sea’ is genocidal, and Elon Musk’s bizarre agreement, but I haven’t seen so much as a single Zionist effort to miscast anti-Israel anti-genocide protestors as pro-genocide.”
Ron:
Well, Kevin, what I think happened was a game of “political telephone.”
There had been lots of college demonstrations against Israel, some of them with large signs denouncing “genocide” and I’d seen a few of the photos.
So, some pro-Israel activists went to ignorant Jewish billionaire donors and told them that leftist students were calling for the genocide of Israeli and maybe American Jews, possibly even showing them some of the photos of the protests with the signs.
Then the billionaire donors went to the stupid members of Congress and told them about the horrifying situation, with college students calling for Jewish genocide, which put the college presidents on the hot-seat and got one of them fired.
There probably was deliberate deceit at one or more of the intermediate steps.
After mulling it over, I realized Ron’s analysis was frighteningly plausible, in light of the Zionist-propaganda-saturated bubble America lives in…
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