Israelis are celebrating mass slaughter in Gaza
What does it say about a society that mainstreams the killing and silencing of Palestinians?
Unless you’ve been away from the internet in the last eight + months, you won’t have missed the litany of Israeli soldiers posting photos and videos celebrating mass destruction, humiliation and death in Gaza and the West Bank.
Here’s just one recent example:
There’s an entire culture within Israel and its army of shamelessly sharing the most extreme ways of targeting Palestinians. Insta-Genocide.
This isn’t the work of a few bad apples or fringe of the Israeli military. Instead, it’s embedded within the state itself. Decades of dehumanising Palestinians and victimhood have led the Jewish state to this low point.
As courageous Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy recently wrote:
In Israelis' wallowing and victimhood; in endless self-righteous panels on TV; in cries about an antisemitic world and the injustice of bundling Israel with Hamas, there's one fundamental, fateful question missing: Did Israel commit war crimes in Gaza? No one dares deal with this critical, key question: Were there, or were there not, crimes?
Although there are other armies in history who documented their crimes (think the US at Abu Ghraib in Iraq), there’s never been such an extensive number of soldiers proudly sharing so much extreme genocidal content for the world to see.
As a result, Israeli society and its blind Western supporters need to be deradicalised and forced (by economic boycotts, sanctions and divestment) to understand that Jewish supremacy and endless occupation are a sickness in desperate need of a cure.
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My recent work has focused on the catastrophe in Gaza and I’ve spoken to media outlets including CNN, Sky News, Al Jazeera English and TRT World. There’s a small selection of my interviews below and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:
Israel has just released its 2023 weapons sales figures and they’re huge, the biggest ever. As I explain in my book, The Palestine Laboratory, battle-testing arms in Gaza and the West Bank is great for business. It’s disaster capitalism on steroids.
Useful Idiots is a popular US podcast that challenges the pieties of the mainstream media and US empire.
I was interviewed on the show recently to discuss my book, The Palestine Laboratory:
My book was released in a Spanish language edition earlier in the year and continues to generate debate in Spain. It’s now available as an audiobook (for those Spanish speakers who want to be read to) and the English language audiobook is out on 11 July across all audio platforms (stay tuned for more details about it).
My first book, My Israel Question, was released in 2006 and was recently reprinted due to public demand.
I wrote about its initial impact and why it still resonates for many people nearly 20 years after its release:
In other recent news:
Over the last 15 years I’ve worked extensively around the world to document disaster capitalism (in a book and film). I was interviewed in The Intercept Brazil about the growing problems of privatisation in Brazil;
My book, The Palestine Laboratory, came out in an Italian language edition this year and I’m speaking regularly in the Italian media about it;
My recent event at Italy’s big Wired Next Fest 2024 talking about my book, the role of Israeli drones in the EU et al;
Israel is engaging in massive amounts of disinformation in an attempt to generate support for its actions in Gaza. I spoke to the leading Italian newspaper, il Fatto Quotidiano;
Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim country and yet critical Jewish voices are rarely heard there. Over the last years I’ve spoken to various media outlets about transforming people’s views about Judaism and anti-Zionism.
As the co-founder and co-editor of Declassified Australia, we were proud to recently publish a story about how AI is being increasingly used in global warfare (with no real regulation) and Australia’s shameful role in not doing far more to pressure Israel over its violent actions in Gaza.
The Sydney Writer’s Festival is the largest literary event in Australia. I recently spoke about Palestine and AI-enabled warfare in Gaza to a packed crowd (and my book sold out, too):
You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.
I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website.
Thanks very much for reading.
Take care.
Antony