Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of law at Queen Mary University in London, recently explained to Anadolu on October 23, 2023 that “Israel is working hard to legitimize the war crimes it commits” in Gaza by using a “dehumanization” strategy to portray the “Palestinians” as “human animals.” After all, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant even said: “We are fighting against animals” — while “comparisons of Palestinians to `rats or snakes’” are often heard on “Israeli social media accounts.” As Gordon wrote, “Palestinians are presented as barbarian and as primitive and as people who do not understand the laws of war, people that do not make distinctions between civilians and combatants, and so forth, and therefore they are immoral, while Israel claims that it tries to protect civilians” (but in reality does just the opposite to the Palestinians).

In this sense, Israel’s “brutality” to Palestinians is a “curse of extremist emotion,” which is not rational in policy evaluation; therefore, for this reason, it ends up being “self-defeating” by “harming” its own security (and also the security of its main supporter, the U. S.), as well as the security of Jews worldwide.

Source: Why Israel’s Brutality to Palestinians Endangers itself and Jews Worldwide