Sociopolitical hallucinations of 10/7 facts
Sociopolitical hallucinations of 10/7 facts, where factual perceptions were warped and post-hoc justified to fit predetermined moral or membership conclusions, rather than having to argue for distinct ethical principles.
(1) “Genocide!”
→ A membership signal first, a factual claim second — requiring radical reinterpretation of casualty ratios, IDF warnings, and Hamas embedding.
(2) “Israelis are all Europeans.”
→ Erases Mizrahi, Ethiopian, Indian, and Arab Jews so the “white colonizer” narrative can remain intact.
(3) “Nakba!”
→ Collapses 75 years of wars and politics into a single eternal archetype so every action today reenacts 1948.
(4) “Israeli Arabs are second-class citizens.”
→ Contradicted by voting rights, Knesset seats, Supreme Court justices, and university representation — but required for the apartheid frame.
(5) “Famine!”
→ Declared while hundreds of aid trucks entered daily and caloric data contradicted it — but emotionally necessary to the narrative.
(6) “Israel deliberately targets civilians.”
→ Needed to sustain “genocide,” regardless of IDF evacuations, calls, texts, roof-knocks, and humanitarian corridors.
(7) “Hamas is resistance.”
→ A wipe of 16 years of dictatorship, torture, executions, oppression, and theft of aid — so massacre becomes “liberation.”
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