{"id":295574,"date":"2025-05-19T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=295574"},"modified":"2025-05-19T04:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:00:49","slug":"imagine-if-gaza-were-jewish-and-the-people-bombing-it-were-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/05\/imagine-if-gaza-were-jewish-and-the-people-bombing-it-were-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine if Gaza Were Jewish and the People Bombing It Were Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_295575\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imagine-if-gaza-was-jewish.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295575\" class=\"wp-image-295575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imagine-if-gaza-was-jewish-1024x535.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imagine-if-gaza-was-jewish-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imagine-if-gaza-was-jewish-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imagine-if-gaza-was-jewish-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imagine-if-gaza-was-jewish.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-295575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by UNRWA via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>16 May 2025 &#8211; <em>If Gaza was populated by Jews and the people massacring its inhabitants were Muslims, nobody would have any trouble calling this thing what it is. The words \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201cHolocaust\u201d would\u2019ve been appearing in the news every single day for the last 19 months. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gaza just endured one of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/5\/16\/gaza-death-toll-passes-53000-as-israel-drives-towards-conquest\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worst days of bombing<\/a> since the beginning of Israel\u2019s genocidal onslaught, with the IDF ramping up aggressions as it prepares for the full military capture of the enclave.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the United Nations <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2025\/05\/15\/un-rejects-us-and-israeli-backed-aid-plan-for-gaza\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rejected<\/a> the US-Israeli plan for delivering aid to the besieged Palestinian territory. The plan has been slammed as a transparent attempt to use food to lure Gaza\u2019s starving population southward into a concentrated area to prepare them for deportation, i.e. ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2025\/05\/16\/imagine-if-gaza-was-jewish-and-the-people-bombing-it-were-muslims\/\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original &#8211; caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 May 2025 &#8211; If Gaza was populated by Jews and those massacring its inhabitants were Muslims, nobody would have any trouble calling this thing what it is. The words \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201cHolocaust\u201d would\u2019ve been appearing in the news every single day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":295575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1669,1854,1199,87,865,1988,88,2552,715,335,427,965],"class_list":["post-295574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-arabs","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-holocaust","tag-israel","tag-jews","tag-massacre","tag-muslims","tag-palestine","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295576,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295574\/revisions\/295576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}