'Manufacturing Consent for Zionism': Atlantic slammed for 'legally killed Gaza child' article
A huge outrage has erupted after US English daily Atlantic in an opinion piece while justifying the brutal Israeli war against the Palestinians went on to justify the killing of children in Gaza at the hands of the Occupation forces
A huge outrage has erupted after US English daily Atlantic in an opinion piece while justifying the brutal Israeli war against the Palestinians went on to justify the killing of children in Gaza at the hands of the Occupation forces.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IoF) have massacred over 35,000 and wounded more than 90,000 Palestinians since Oct 7, 2023. Close to 12,000 Palestinians are missing and believed to be dead. More than 70% of those killed and missing are women and children.
Close to 50% basic structure - including hospitals, schools, colleges, universities and relief camps in the besieged Gaza Strip has been razed to ground, leaving around 1.5 million Palestinians without shelter.
Atlantic Edit Piece
The Atlantic in its edit piece however not ready to believe these figures and the scale of damages that are also confirmed by the United Nations.
Zionists want you to believe that there isn’t a genocide in Gaza and at the same time that Palestinians deserve to be genocided. pic.twitter.com/Bv5Gwt1Vci
— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾 (@Partisangirl) May 27, 2024
In the op-ed piece titled “The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense”, the Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood outrageously and without any counter evidence questioned the accuracy of the UN’s civilian death toll figures in Gaza.
Wood, known for his skeptical stance toward Hamas and Palestine, controversially suggested that in certain scenarios, the killing of children can be legally justifiable.
“It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them. But the sight of a legally killed child is no less disturbing than the sight of a murdered one,” he wrote.
Huge Backlash
The article sparked a huge backlash, with the campaign group Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) calling it an attempt to "manufacture consent for Zionism".
“Eight months into the genocide and western media is still manufacturing consent for Zionism,” the group wrote in a post on X on Sunday.
“Defending child murder is egregious; but @TheAtlantic has historically defended imperial bloodshed,” WAWOG added.
'Call to cancel Atlantic subscriptions'
Lebanese political activist and musician Peter Daou and others slammed the Atlantic questioning the legality of Wood’s claim and calling his choice of words “disgusting”.
“‘A legally killed child’ is a phrase I never imagined I would read in my lifetime", he wrote on social media platform X.
A number of social media users have also called for canceling their subscriptions to The Atlantic.
The Atlantic published the outrageous article after Israel refused to oblige the International Court of Justice (ICJ) order calling the Zionist far right regime to end its military offensive in Rafah, described by the UNRWA as horrifying.
Continuing its brutal military offensive in Gza, the Israeli forces Sunday killed at least 45 people, hitting tents for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, with reports that people were burning alive.
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