Those who defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza have a script.
If you spend any time online, watching TV news debates, or listening to both Israeli and western politicians, you will be familiar with much of it.
“They use civilians as human shields in Gaza” is a common line. “The Palestinians shouldn’t have started a war they couldn’t win” is another. “The Israeli military is the most moral army in the world” is among the most absurd.
There are questions, too: “Do you condemn Hamas?” “Do you defend what happened on 7 October?” “Does Israel have a right to exist?” They are all traps.
Here is one, though, that is a little newer and centres on events happening far from Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It’s this: “What about Sudan and Congo?”
