Hamas admits 72% of deaths are combat-aged men as it quietly reduces civilian death toll - report

[Beastly Boy]

31. Nice, I could't have asked for a better illustration of grossly misinformed anti-Israel bias.

It is not possible, if you know anything about Israel, to support and defend everything Israel does.

For example, I cannot possibly support and defend both the Netanyahu government and the tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrating daily against it.

I cannot possibly support and defend both the secular Zionists and religious anti-Zionists.

I cannot possibly support and defend both the rule of law and the judicial reform in Israel.

It is only when one completely, ignorantly and deliberately disregards the incredible diversity of Israel that one can speak of Israel as if it were a comic strip villain. It is only when one strips Israel of all but the worst negative stereotyping that one can so categorically villainize Israel.

It is only when one normalizes this negative stereotyping to the point where it becomes a collection of cartoonish memes that are taken for granted and are by default presumed to be immune from scrutiny, a practice that I find despicable (you don't have to find it despicable to validate my choices), that I step in and challenge the validity of such narratives.

This is "my side". It is so far removed from supporting anything and everything Israel does, so far removed from what you imagine "my side" to be, that I have no words or the time to address the chasm between what it is and what you think it is. Nor am I inclined to get defensive over your accusations.

Performative outrage" is a more polite version of the term "outrage porn", a phenomenon that is well defined and studied (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrage_porn). It is obvious that I am neither the creator of outrage porn nor its consumer or connoisseur. On the contrary, I push back on it every chance I get.

If one wants to look further into what outrage porn is and is not, all one has to do is examine how statements that presume sympathy from billions of people "on one's side" relate to the mechanics of outrage porn.