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My point exactly. Over the last 40-50 years, pro-Palestinian news bytes have shown one thing: the Palestine cause is great at marketing, especially to young people. However, this doesn’t mean Israel has a clean vest… it simply shows the complexity of the conflict and that only a two state solution might get this solved.
The only reason it got a recent boost was because the west didn't control Tiktok, otherwise you'd be gargling up whatever the news said about the war and agreeing to it, ie. Iraq and Afghanistan.
The marketing was in full force on the other side to make themselves seem like the good guys.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537121.2024.2394292
https://www.jns.org/whistleblower-report-exposes-journalistic-failures-of-bbcs-coverage-of-israel-hamas-war/
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/bbc-admits-misleading-public-by-depicting-pro-palestine-rallies-as-backing-for-hamas/3022390
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/06/read-devastating-internal-bbc-memo-in-full/
Fuckwits like you are the reason people need to watch real horrors of humans, so they don't call it "marketing".
Great at marketing? You call appeals to the humanity of people being systematically ethnically cleansed or genocided is...marketing? Are the videos of dismembered children marketing?
Get your two stater, Israel apologist ass out of here.
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about? The fucking satellite imagery showing half the strip being reduced to rubble isn't made up.
Absolutely not. Palestinians and pro-Palestinians are absolutely terrible at marketing. There's a reason that with few exceptions the only places where Zionism didn't find purchase were the ones where people were reading about the Nakba in the daily newspaper and it took a livestreamed genocide for anti-Zionism to become something resembling mainstream elsewhere.
Nothing is complex about this.
Shut up you butt slurper