Four reasons why Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is being accepted by the world by Qassam Muaddi

For the longest time, that world was ignorant of the nature of Israel’s settler colonial project, as international public opinion was shielded from the reality imposed on the Palestinian people. An entire generation grew up in this world after the Nakba, yet knew very little of it or about Palestine. It, too, was sold on the universal values of the liberal world order.

But the Gaza genocide changed everything, breaking down the wall of obfuscation and exposing Israel as a pariah state.

Most of the realities described above might today seem familiar to readers. They weren’t twenty years ago. Just as the mass expulsion of Jenin and Tulkarem and Jabalia and Beit Hanoun was unimaginable before October 2023, the global reaction by regular people was equally unprecedented. Global ignorance has been a key component of Israel’s impunity, and that impunity is now under assault.