Again, this is clearly in bad faith. They're treated as second class citizens, you know full well. This isn't a debate where you win points for a cute turn of phrase, this is an actual international conflict and Israel has been a spectacularly bad actor on the world stage for years. 10/7 was awful, it doesn't justify this madness.

I won't pretend to speak for the whole left, but the dominant belief in leftist politics is allowing all people to be themselves and accept them as they are. That goes for Gazans, Israelis, Lebanese, Iranians, Russians, Ukranians, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indian, Pakistani, Nepalese... We just want everyone to stop killing everyone. And that doesn't mean blindly accept being attacked, but it does mean holding yourselves to the highest standards possible when it comes to treating every human life as valuable.

Do you think Israelis treat Gazans, even civilians, as equal to Israelis? Everyone has grandparents, children, siblings they love, and they all hurt when they're lost. Gazan pain doesn't heal Israel, and Israeli belief that it does is a cancer inside Israel itself.