post from @/tamarrud on tumblr, 22 June:
One of our biggest hurdles for justice in Palestine is forgetfulness and indifference, which are the cornerstones of Israeli impunity.
Take a look at just the first hospital bombing since October 7, when the Al-Ahli hospital was bombed in October, and people were rightfully outraged for days. Israel then bombed a second hospital, a crime that was now just a headline. Then Israel bombed a third hospital, and now, over 20 hospitals later, this has become "what Israel does".
And I am seeing this now too, where just within one month, people went from literally screaming their lungs out on TikTok about the massacre Israel committed in a displacement camp on May 28, to yesterday, when Israel committed another massacre at another displacement camp, the third within one month, and I can visibly see the difference in response between the first time this happened (May 28) and the third time (June 21).
This has always been the plan as evidenced by Israel's founder saying "the old will die and the young will forget." But when it was clear this was not going to happen and Palestinians would not forget, the selective amnesia of the west became the basis of Israel's strategy.
