Chapotraphouse

Yeah, like, I was doing Palestinian activism in college during the 2010"s, but I just thought it was like a deep sectarian conflict (as most Americans are taught to understand it). The genuine bonafide racism and genocidal tendencies of Israelis didn't actually click until I saw a documentary that was literally just walk up interviews with random Israelis, especially college students my age and like people in their mid-thirties. And the majority would openly say, sometimes even in English, that Palestine and all Palestinians should be completely wiped off the map, and that it is only by Israeli patience and goodwill that it hasn't happened yet.

Even the 'liberal zionists' talked about the Palestinians as if they were animals that needed to be tamed and then cared for. It was real eye opening stuff because I didn't think there were people who actually thought like that, let alone so many. And the crazy part is that all of them would smile the whole time, like it was all a big joke, even when these policies were actively happening and actively killing Palestinians, particularly children.