cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16314156
Briahna Joy Gray fired from The Hill days after rolling her eyes at sister of Oct. 7 hostage during interview [Jon Levine & Patrick Reilly | Jun 06 24 | NYPost]
A political commentator was sacked from The Hill — days after rolling her eyes while interviewing the sister of an Israeli abducted on Oct. 7 victim.
You can be sympathetic to the plight of the hostages and be against Zionism and the Gazan genocide at the same time.
Does Hamas exist in a vacuum? No. Does that justify kidnapping hundreds of civilians? No. Does that justify the murder of thousands? Also no.
I agree, thank you for pointing that out!
It’s sad that it needs to be said. People on both sides have tried to justify one or the other.
Or deny that there was a massacre on October 7th or that there’s war crimes being committed currently by Israel. The whole situation is fucked and nothing about it will change unless everyone sits the fuck down at a table plus Israel’s allies need to stop fucking giving them complete carte blanche to do whatever they want and they need to stop funding/providing weapons.
Abso-fucking-lutely 100% the correct take right here. We need to absolutely be wary of opportunists trying to remove nuance from the situation. That doesn’t mean don’t be realistic about the horrors, that doesn’t mean treating the vile guilty parties with kid gloves, it just means ensuring we don’t let our outrage carry us away with the current. And we have to be honest with ourselves that there are legitimately an astounding amount of outside forces and actors trying to manipulate the situation from all sides to score wins and promote dangerous ideologies.
Seek justice, seek peace, yes absolutely, but don’t let yourself become an unwitting soldier in somebody else’s war.