Israel is the only issue where the western political-media class treats people's feelings as a matter of supreme importance.
If you're a stressed-out single parent struggling to pay bills and keep a roof over your kids' head, they don't care about your feelings.
If you're an American who's been cast into destitution and homelessness by medical bills, they don't care about your feelings.
If you're a Palestinian whose apartment complex was bombed with your entire family inside, they definitely don't care about your feelings.
But if you're a western Zionist who doesn't like the cognitive dissonance that comes with encountering anti-genocide protesters, or even if you're an Israeli who's upset about anti-genocide protests in whole other country on the other side of the planet, they're very, very interested in your feelings.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's Defenders Talk So Much About Feelings Because They Can't Talk About Facts

I don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I love Hamas or hate Jews or love Islam or hate America.
I don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm a lefty or a commie or an anarchist or an anti-imperialist.
I oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm not a fucking psychopath.

Reading by Tim Foley.

I Oppose Israel's Atrocities In Gaza Because I'm Not A Psychopath

What's happening in Gaza SHOULD radicalize you. It absolutely should.

Right now, even as its own criminality hits fever pitch, the western political-media class is fretting with increasing shrillness about young people getting "radicalized" and turned against their government by the spread of information and ideas at campus demonstrations and on TikTok. 

But young people should be radicalizing right now. Everyone should.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Destruction Of Gaza SHOULD Be Radicalizing People

Don’t let anyone tell you your protests don’t make a difference or your dissident speech poses no threat to the powerful. If what you’re doing wasn’t working, empire managers wouldn’t be losing their minds right now.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

"It's like responding to warnings of another holocaust by babbling about Sauron."

Reading by Tim Foley.

Using A Fictional Antisemitism Crisis To Support A Real Genocide

When nobody in power will lift a finger to earn your vote but they're falling all over themselves trying to stomp out a robust protest movement, that tells you what the powerful are actually afraid of and where you should really be focusing your political energy.

Reading by Tim Foley.

When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something

Our perception of the world is dominated by the movements of our attention, which means that our perception of the world can be changed by manipulating those movements. Propagandists understand this, so they spend their time doing things like telling us over and over again what a bad bad baddie Vladimir Putin is while just occasionally giving a single highly mitigated mention to an individual instance of Israeli criminality, or talking about October 7 over and over again while greatly deemphasizing the massacres Israel has been perpetrating on the Palestinians in Gaza every day since.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Media Skew Public Perception By Manipulating People's Attention

העולם על פי שפטל עם יורם שפטל - 20-06-24

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.