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still thinking about how every time they want to whitewash the genocide in Palestine it's always "but they raped Israeli women" or "but they're homophobic" or "but they would kill Jews if they had the chance". it's at a whole other scale, but the structure of weaponising cancel culture feels very familiar:

- you don't want to be _antisemitic_, do you? → you have to support Israel / bar Arab refugees

- are you telling me you're _pro-militarism_ / _pro-imperialism_? → you have to let Russia invade

- you support _feminism_, don't you? → you have to be a terf/swerf

- are you _against gay people_ ? → you have to be Islamophobic

and you can try to question the accusations, e.g. that Israeli reports on the actions of Palestinians have been shown again and again to be wildly unreliable so how can you know that those rape accusations are real. or you can try to tu-quoque it and say, what about the accusations of IDF soldiers raping women—backed by the UN etc. maybe you can Uno-reverse with an accusation of racism and ask, "if an Arabic majority was doing to a Jewish ghetto what Israel is doing to Palestinians, how would you react? if Russia slaughtered Dortmund because they harbours Nazis, would you support Russia"? ...