#and talking about the nakba and the 1948 war without even saying those terms or putting them in context i mean jesus christ

[heydragonfly]

man i know the nature of social media at this point is to try and condense extremely complicated social and political issues into easy-to-digest mini infographies that lose all sense of nuance with the issue but uuuh gotta say y’all seeing the Arab-Israeli conflict be condensed into ten pictures with a couple sentences on each is A Lot

#and unsurprisingly it was filled with things that were either so biased to be bordering on misinformation or were just blatantly incorrect #bc hey guess what! what can be considered one of the most complicated conflicts in human history CANNOT be boiled down to TEN SLIDES #i mean jesus ‘Israel has only existed for 77 years’ i mean yeah TECHNICALLY but Zionist settlers have been in the region since the 1880s #and calling it a settler nation is just that’s a Whole Thing and it is nowhere near as simple as that #and talking about the nakba and the 1948 war without even saying those terms or putting them in context i mean jesus christ #and to have those condensed into like FOUR SENTENCES i mean COME ON #and to frame the conflict as israel being a settler nation who just needs to leave to free palestine is both tragically unrealistic #and a disservice to what freeing palestine actually means #like if you want to spread support for the issue talk about israeli settlements in the west bank!! #you can’t just throw out the term apartheid and not apply it to the west bank if that’s your argument #and talking about palestine without mentioning the terms west bank and gaza even once like???? #it’s just a whole bunch of misinformation framed as being for the free palestine moving but acting more as a detriment to it by not even #addressing the current state of palestinians #SORRY for all this im just whdhsjbd #i’m by no means an expert on this topic or anything close #i know enough to know how much i don’t know #but like posts like that are just dangerously misinformative about such a complex issue #and prey on peoples like of familiarity with the issue #which is to say if you’ve reblogged that post you’re FINE i’m irked with op or the person who made it #ash rambles