JOHNSTONE

Basically you have two choices: either you believe Israel is a genocidal state that is morally comparable to Nazi Germany, or you believe there's a giant global conspiracy of mainstream western institutions and media outlets dedicated to making Israel look bad.

Reading by Tim Foley.

I don't enjoy writing about this shit. I don't enjoy getting called a Nazi by state-funded shills all day.

I didn't ask to spend years watching a live-streamed genocide perpetrated right in front of my eyes with the facilitation of my own government.

I didn't choose to live in a world where Israel's actions directly affect me and my country.

I never invited the Israel lobby to attack my freedom of speech by trying to outlaw criticism of a genocidal apartheid state.

It was never my decision to live in an information ecosystem where pro-Israel propagandists are constantly trying to deceive me about what's going on in my world and manipulate the thoughts in my head.

Those things were imposed upon me.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The highest award in all of journalism is being accused of antisemitism by the Israeli government for factual reporting.

Reading by Tim Foley.

In a fawning softball 60 Minutes interview released Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of winning "the propaganda war" on social media. This comes as Israel moves to quadruple its propaganda budget to $730 million a year.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's not impossible to solve our world's problems, it only looks that way because we've created systems which cause human behavior to be driven by mindless mechanisms of our own making rather than by human interest.

Reading by Tim Foley.