Dehumanization is a prerequisite of most forms of violence. Well before a bomb drops on a school where children are sheltering ... you have to make that act acceptable.
The more dead, starving, weeping, and shredded Palestinian bodies the public sees, the more the brain becomes psychically numbed to them.
The most common critique of critiquing Israel hinges on exceptionalism: the idea that the state is unfairly criticized, held to a different standard, uniquely singled out.
This is an old trick on brown and Black bodies: write them out of the imagination, age them up, refer to them in the collective.
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