Israel have been a strong westernised influence in the Middle East, and so protect western interests in the region. Therefore, despite their poor behaviour towards Palestine even before this escalation, most western countries have chosen to look the other way because “it wasn’t that bad”.

You even could argue that the (re)creation of Israel in Palestine wasn’t ever really about giving those of the Jewish faith back the homeland they lost a couple thousand years ago. It was always about those interests, but with a sweet little cover story. Who’s going to argue with that after all the Jews went through?

Now the actions that were being ignored for convenience have reached a point that they are starting to attract the attention of average people who don’t really have any opinion other than “genocide bad” and, to be fair, as simple opinions go, it’s a pretty f–king valid one.

It’s purely financial. We make a lot of weapons and we like selling them. The best customers are the ones currently using the weapons, since that lets us test them in the field and guarantees that they’ll want to buy more since they’ve just exploded the last order.

I honestly don’t think they care who the weapons are being used against, and the “antisemetic” label is little more than a shield used to deflect criticism. If the bombs were being used by Saudi Arabia to level Israel, I’m confident that the political apathy would be similar.

If you want them to care about more than that, they have to believe you’d vote for a party opposed to selling weapons to genociders, but instead of Green, the country voted Labour with their stated unshakeable support for genocide so… we get who we vote for.