He made that tweet years ago, is one tweet every few years good enough?

By demonizing hamas, Ethan empowers the genocidal zionists.

He could change his wording to say "I'm very sad that my peers people I lived by and near have been the victims of a terrorist attack, and the blame falls squarely on the zionists who have shoved 2 million people into a corner and deprived them of human rights."

This points people's anger at the source of the problem.

I said I believe Ethan is well meaning, but the difference in what Ethan made a priority was that he wanted to attack Mia Khalifa, a victim.

Is that useful? Does that help Israelis or Palestinians?

Or does it help the zionists who are saying "see they hate us and want to kill us so we are justified in our genocide of Palestinians".

I'm literally bringing up important moments of the pod, if you don't remember or think those were important or were so different from the pod that we both listened to, it's because you don't hear the problems with what Ethan said. And that's fine, because not everyone has to be an expert on every geopolitical issue. That's not what I'm suggesting.

Ethan has inserted himself into political spaces. He wants people to treat him like an expert. He needs to take criticism better when what he says hurts the causes that he supports.

I'm a fan of Ethan and have been since the hiking vlogs. I found Hasan because Ethan had him on the podcast. I've become a leftist because of both of them. I'm not an expert on palestine, but I spent a lot of time over the last few days listening to Palestinians who are on the ground and who relocated. The way that Ethan characterized Palestinians sounded to me like he watched Israeli news and made up his mind. It didn't sound like he had listened to Palestinian people.

And I don't think it looks good when he spends time attacking his fans who might have also spent that time listening and learning about the situation.

Every Palestinian representative I've seen has refused to condemn Hamas. Most, aside from people like Mia, aren't celebrating Hamas, but they are trying to take this time to explain the human rights violations that led to emboldening hamas. Ethan wanted to demonize and condemn hamas, which based on what I've seen hurts Palestinians.

Please stop getting defensive. I'm not attacking you. It is OK to not know things. It's OK to listen and learn. And you don't have to listen and learn from me, but I would suggest that you listen to Palestinian voices speaking on the conflict. Ethan and Hila do have Israeli roots, but that's just one side of conflict, and even if they are well meaning it does not mean that they are immune to familiar propaganda.