The US’ usual propaganda tricks—which worked so well for so many decades—has collapsed in the face of a live streaming Palestinian genocide. People aren’t buying the bullshit anymore. They’re not buying what imperial shills like Masih Alinejad are selling.

Edit to add: War on Gaza: How pro-Israel Iranian Americans are silencing Palestine supporters

The pro-Israel segments of the Iranian-American community include prominent activists such as Masih Alinejad, who said in 2021 that she would “love to visit Israel”. Since the 7 October attacks, she has called on Washington to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terror group for Tehran’s support of Hamas.

However, several activists who spoke to Middle East Eye said that these individuals are just a small minority of the larger Iranian-American community.

They say the reason that it appears that most Iranians in the diaspora are pro-Israel is because most of the ones who do support Palestine are afraid to speak up.

"The vocal presence of Iranian Zionists online and at rallies might create a misleading perception. In reality, many Iranians are afraid to speak out and do not align with this viewpoint," said one Iranian activist who spoke to [Middle East Eye] on condition of anonymity.

"The loudness on social media doesn't accurately represent the broader sentiment."

I know, this war is very abnormal culturally. in this case I think it is because the USA openly went looking for violence without even trying to give a real casus belli. Usually they don't skip that part and the government and media does a thorough job of fabricating a palatable justification that most people can swallow. Freedom or WMDs or whatever, you know if you live in a Western nation, something to give some sort of higher meaning to slaughter and destruction.

they didn't even bother this time, not really. It's in someway even more insulting than being lied to and shows the growing weakness of democracy in the world that so many governments now have this attitude of "it doesn't matter what you think, because its happening and you can't do anything about it"

and well, if it doesn't matter what we think, why should we care at all? But all the compliancy cuts both ways. soldiers dying, innocents dying, bombs dropping, it all just fades into the background until it's right in our faces. The world has become more violent and we're used to it, it doesn't bode well.