The war is packaged and globalised. Your sympathy for one side — though the best people care for both — is a signifier of who you are. Are you for the Intifada or the Occupation?
In America some high-school children dance down corridors, singing “from the river to the sea”. I doubt they know which river or which sea. In London posters of Israeli hostages are torn down and thrown to the ground. Elements of the British far-Right side with Israel, which is offensive and transparent. Have they forgotten it’s a Jewish state, or do they just hate Muslims more nowadays?
